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    TXR Language: A new lisp dialect + text pattern matching language ☶ lisp nongnu.org
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Attempts to be a lower-verbosity lisp than the existing dialects. Has some interesting features, including being a lisp-2 that behaves like a lisp-1 for forms within square brackets.

The author has also made a series of reddit posts talking about the language.

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    technik avatar technik 5 years ago | link

    I found TXR to be a nice tool for the situation when:

    • what you need to parse has some organization to it but isn’t going to submit to a regexp or pipeline, cobbling together a script starts to get longer and hairier and it’s not worth writing a lexer (see next).
    • it’s a throw-away or only used a few times.

    The problem is that I never seem to use it often enough to entirely remember it (unlike jq which I use regularly). If it had convenient mangling of YAML and JSON it would probably become the first tool I reach for.