What is Parser?
Parser is a simple and convenient object-oriented language, which allows creating good sites in short time. It is a little more complicated than HTML, but requires no special programming skills. Parser was started in Art. Lebedev studio in 1997. Nowadays, most of sites created by Art. Lebedev studio are made with Parser.

What is it for, anyway?
Language is designed and optimized in such a way that it would be more convenient to create good sites. Language supports working with forms, cookies, table files, databases, and XML. Support for user operators and classes allows to extend its functionality.

There is PHP, what Parser is for?
PHP is a programming language requiring appropriate training. Parser can be successfully used by non-professional programmers. Parser is especially good in that it allows mere mortals to create and maintain complex dynamic sites without spending too much time.

I programmed in other languages, in short, what is so convenient in Parser?
Parser is, among other things, a macro-language. It has no print operator; all the code in source file is, in fact, a big print operator. Parser syntax is immersed into text. That is, you do not write program that outputs text. On the contrary, you add logic to already existing text, ^if(condition){action}, and organize it by splitting HTML-code into blocks like:

@header[]

...
@footer[]
...
@navigation[]
...
@body[]
...

My browser displays Parser code, not its result. What's wrong (I am using Apache web-server)?
Parser is not assigned as a handler of your documents after all.
To test whether Parser itself works, type this in your browser's address line:
http://your_site/cgi-bin/parser3.cgi (or .exe, for Win32 version) You should see something like this:

Parser/3.x.x