Thanks. Do you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_parser It seems it's something to be more used for the natural language parsing, less for the programming languages?
That turns out to not be a very good writeup. The published work is http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=801348 and Dick Vile did a lot of work on it years after that, using it to describe an in-house production language.
