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In 1985 he was seconded to the Oxford University Press to write a syntax-directed colour-coding editor for the SGML text of the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. That editor (the live parsing editor, called LEXX) and its LPEX derivatives became part of the IBM VisualAge range of products, running on VM/CMS, OS/2, OS/400, AIX, Windows, and Java. Mike remains a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.
MFC: Around 1985, the Oxford University Press needed an editor that could handle highly structured data: the content of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is about a 20-volume, 1000-page-per-volume dictionary. So I wrote an editor for them called "LEXX" which ran on IBM mainframes. It's now mostly used for program editing, because of its ability to parse data and color keywords, and other features.
In 1985 he was seconded to the Oxford University Press to write a syntax-directed colour-coding editor for the SGML text of the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. That editor (the live parsing editor, called LEXX) and its LPEX derivatives became part of the IBM VisualAge range of products, running on VM/CMS, OS/2, OS/400, AIX, Windows, and Java. Mike remains a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.
LPEX gets its initials from the name "live parsing editor." It parses the lines you type, as your type them, and displays syntax errors immediately; you don't have to run the source code through the compiler or interpreter to catch simple syntax errors.
