[gfsd]directory entry for Ragel

[Adrian Thurston]

%%comments:
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%%name: Ragel State Machine Comiler

%%short-description: Compiles finite state machines from regular languages
        into runnable C code.

%%full-description: Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular
        languages into runnable C code. It allows you to embed
        function calls at any point in your regular language, and
        to control the non-determinism in the resulting machines. It
        understands concatenation, union (the "or" operator), kleene star,
        subtraction, and intersection, as well as some helpers like "!",
        "?" and "+". Ragel's finite state machines are closed under all
        of its operators. This property allows for arbitrary regular
        lanuages to be described. It can be used to create a parser for
        any language that is regular.

%%category: Development

%%license: GPL

%%license verified by: Ron Peterson <address@hidden>

%%license verified on: 2002-03-03

%%maintainer: Adrian Thurston <address@hidden>

%%updated: 2002-03-04

%%keywords: compile, finite, state, machine, FSM, DFA, NFA, regular,
        lanuage, compiler, concatenation, union, kleen, kleene, star

%%interface: Command line

%%web-page: http://www.ragel.ca/ragel/

%%doc: English user introduction in HTML from
        http://www.ragel.ca/ragel/manual.html

%%developers: Adrian Thurston <address@hidden>

%%source-tarball: http://www.ragel.ca/ragel/ragel-1.0.5.tar.gz

%%source-info: http://www.ragel.ca/ragel/

%%source-template: http://www.ragel.ca/ragel/ragel-latest.tar.gz

%%source-language: C++

%%supported-languages: C++, C

%%build-prerequisites: Flex, Bison

%%version: 1.0.5 released on 2002-03-03

%%entry-written-by: Adrian Thurston <address@hidden>