From: derek@knosof.co.uk   
      
   John,   
      
   > I wonder if the OP has a clue how compilers work? If he has, he might   
   > want to try his hand at writing a BNF grammar for English.   
    >   
   > [As I said back in 2006, it's not hard to make an easy to parse subset of   
   English,   
   > but that's COBOL. -John]   
      
   The closest I have seen so far is Attempto:   
   http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/   
      
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