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diff --git a/development/txr/README b/development/txr/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9f0f053c8451 --- /dev/null +++ b/development/txr/README @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +txr (pattern-based text extraction language) + +TXR is a pragmatic, convenient tool ready to take on your daily +hacking challenges with its dual personality: its whole-document +pattern matching and extraction language for scraping information from +arbitrary text sources, and its powerful data-processing language to +slice through problems like a hot knife through butter. Many tasks +can be accomplished with TXR "one liners" directly from your system +prompt. TXR is relatively new: the project started in 2009. + +If you want to run the test suite, export MAKETESTS=yes in the +script's environment. |