Installing
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Installing on a linux system is a breeze

[source,bash]
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wget -q http://www.colm.net/files/colm/thurston-phdthesis.pdf
wget -q http://www.colm.net/files/colm/colm-0.13.0.4.tar.gz
tar -xaf colm-0.13.0.4.tar.gz
cd colm-0.13.0.4
./configure --prefix=/opt/colm
make
sudo make install
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When we do:

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/opt/colm/bin/colm
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We get:

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error: colm: colm: no input file given
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It works!

== First impression

When we look a little bit closer we see that colm:

* is able to be build as a static and/or shared libray.
* is licenced under GPL 2
* is equiped with a vim syntax highlighting file
* is using the aapl (LGPL 2.1 licenced) library from Adrian Thurston (just like ragel does).
* There is one file in the repository that stands out: 'colm.lm'
  In the Ragel repository there are also serveral '.lm' files. And it's syntax looks like the colm language that is presented in the thesis.