* Try to quickly write the whole thing as a single recursive descent parser. Note the exploding amount of ugliness. Give up.
* Separate out the tokenizer (novel idea, huh?) to keep parser complexity down. Parser is still a mess. Ugh!
* Play around with some CL parser frameworks. This helps a bit, but none of the systems I tried produce errors with enough information.
* Remember the breeze it was to write a parser with the Haskell Parsec library. Mess around with monads for a while, learn a few things, but not how to write elegant parsers in Common Lisp.
I've been going through these exact steps but in JavaScript. Writing languages is fun! And makes me want to kill things!
