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Interesting that they'd go for context-free grammars rather than PEG? A few years ago someone created a PEG-matcher lua lib, similarly aimed at replacing regexps: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/docs/peg.pdf And Ward Cunningham's exploratory parser: https://github.com/AboutUs/exploratory-parsing

Is there a link to the paper somewhere?

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here : http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2011-705.pdf It is sad we have to dig for it, it should be the first link in the article.

Thanks.

Having read the paper, it seems its more specialized to cisco IOS config files - they're building a library of patterns you can match against, the paper doesn't explain how you can add your own. And it does seem to be CFG rather than PEG - there's a separate token library.

Ward's work looks more usably generic than this, it's not cited so I presume they weren't aware of it.

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