<p>I have read the GOLD Homepage ( <a href="http://www.devincook.com/goldparser/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.devincook.com/goldparser/</a> ) docs, FAQ and Wikipedia to find out what practical application there could possibly be for GOLD. I was thinking along the lines of having a programming language (easily) available to my systems such as ABAP on SAP or X++ on Axapta - but it doesn't look feasible to me, at least not easily - even if you use GOLD.</p>

<p>The final use of the parsed result produced by GOLD escapes me - what do you do with the result of the parse?</p>

<p>EDIT: A practical example (description) would be great.</p>

GOLD can be used for any kind of application where you have to apply context-free grammars to input.
elaboration:
Essentially, CFGs apply to all programming languages. So if you wanted to develop a scripting language for your company, you'd need to write a parser- or get a parsing program. Alternatively, if you wanted to have a semi-natural language for input for non-programmers in the company, you could use a parser  to read that input and spit out more "machine-readable" data. Essentially, a context-free grammar allows you to describe far more inputs than a regular expression. The GOLD system apparently makes the parsing problem somewhat easier than lex/yacc(the UNIX standard programs for parsing).