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yarrel
Looks interesting but it's non-free software.
enqk
There is a free software analogue in development called COLM.

http://www.colm.net/open-source/colm/

evacchi
With respect to Program Transformation, I'd point out Stratego/Spoofax [1] and Kiama [2]

  [1] http://strategoxt.org/Spoofax  
  [2] https://code.google.com/p/kiama/
breckinloggins
Appearance matters.

The font makes the page very hard to read and lends an impression of silliness to what is obviously a very serious project.

jdnier
It looks reasonable in Chrome on Linux... until I looked at the source, which is littered with <FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"> tags.
northisup
Ad hominem comment about comic-sans.
0xdeadbeefbabe
The people who need this (like I did a few years ago) if they notice it at all are still willing to suffer through plenty.
DannyBee
TXL has been around for 20+ years now, it's interesting but just never going to be used in production :)
thisrod
It seems to be meant for research and development, not as the asteroid from the lex manpage. It would make sense as a teaching language for compilers, too. The people who need to know how Lex and Yacc work could read the Dragon Book later.

I wonder if Alan Kay and the Viewpoints mob knew about this, and if so, why they bothered with O-Meta?