1 
   2   sparse (spärs), adj,., spars-er, spars-est.
   3         1. thinly scattered or distributed; "a sparse population"
   4         2. thin; not thick or dense: "sparse hair"
   5         3. scanty; meager.
   6         4. semantic parse
   7         [ from Latin: spars(us) scattered, past participle of
   8           spargere 'to sparge' ]
   9 
  10         Antonym: abundant
  11 
  12 Sparse is a semantic parser of source files: it's neither a compiler
  13 (although it could be used as a front-end for one) nor is it a
  14 preprocessor (although it contains as a part of it a preprocessing
  15 phase). 
  16 
  17 It is meant to be a small - and simple - library.  Scanty and meager,
  18 and partly because of that easy to use.  It has one mission in life:
  19 create a semantic parse tree for some arbitrary user for further
  20 analysis.  It's not a tokenizer, nor is it some generic context-free
  21 parser.  In fact, context (semantics) is what it's all about - figuring
  22 out not just what the grouping of tokens are, but what the _types_ are

   1 
   2   sparse (spärs), adj,., spars-er, spars-est.
   3         1. thinly scattered or distributed; "a sparse population"
   4         2. thin; not thick or dense: "sparse hair"
   5         3. scanty; meager.
   6         4. semantic parse
   7         [ from Latin: spars(us) scattered, past participle of
   8           spargere 'to sparge' ]
   9 
  10         Antonym: abundant
  11 
  12 Sparse is a semantic parser of source files: it's neither a compiler
  13 (although it could be used as a front-end for one) nor is it a
  14 preprocessor (although it contains as a part of it a preprocessing
  15 phase). 
  16 
  17 It is meant to be a small - and simple - library.  Scanty and meager,
  18 and partly because of that easy to use.  It has one mission in life:
  19 create a semantic parse tree for some arbitrary user for further
  20 analysis.  It's not a tokenizer, nor is it some generic context-free
  21 parser.  In fact, context (semantics) is what it's all about - figuring
  22 out not just what the grouping of tokens are, but what the _types_ are