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+# ABB RAPID grammar
+
+## Authors
+
+Antlr4 port by Tom Everett, 2016; 
+Maximilian Segelken Thu Jan 7, 2021 11:21
+
+## Description
+
+The grammar of the industrial robots of ABB. This grammar has been reverse engineered
+based on a set of ABB Rapid sys-files and the existing kuka-krl antlr file
+['../kuka/krl.g4'](https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/blob/5e7540fae7588cf1529fc398cb3d8ee691890ded/kuka/krl.g4).
+
+## Links
+
+https://pldb.io/concepts/rapid.html
+
+## License
+
+[GNU Lesser General Public License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/#LGPL)
+
+## Issues
+
+Known ambiguity in dataList.
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-Maximilian Segelken Thu Jan 7, 2021 11:21
-The grammar of the industrial robots of ABB. This grammar has been reverse engineered based on a set of ABB Rapid sys-files and the existing kuka-krl antlr file '../kuka/krl.g4'
-
-Antlr4 port by Tom Everett, 2016