DSL vs. Rich Native Syntax

It's interesting - there is so many different projects which authors declare as an advantage that a project does not use (strange) Domain Specific Language, but where everything is implemented in the same host language.

Sometimes it comes out more beautiful, sometimes it is not.

Tried ZestyParser.

Here is the banal parsing of a phrase "create or replace"

from ZestyParser import *

sp = Omit((RE('\s+')) + Skip((RE('#[^\n]*\n') | RE('\s+'))))
create_package = RawToken('create') + sp
      + ((RawToken('or') + sp + RawToken('replace')) | EmptyToken)
ZestyParser('create or replace').scan(create_package)

I have to dig it further, so far it comes out ugly enough.