Software companies mobilize their syntax as the Parser War heats up.
In war, weapons are only as good as the battle they're used in. The quest to invent a parser that understands complex, complete sentences goes on apace. The parser is the part of the program that reads a player's typed-in command by comparing the words with those that the programmer has included in the game's vocabulary. If it finds a match, the parser then sends numbers representing those particular words to another section of the program so it can respond with the appropriate message or picture which is stored in the data base on the disk. Loosely defined, the parser is the lifeblood of a text program.