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Article #6383Re: Language Design, or: is C's Grammar Context Free
From: Chris Torek
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1989 05:07
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1989 05:07
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In article <920@m10ux.ATT.COM> mnc@m10ux.ATT.COM (Michael Condict) writes: >What you are ignoring is that very few parsers stand alone by themselves. We are not ignoring this. The topic was `context free grammars', not `compilers and parsers'. If you want to argue that one cannot build a useful compiler using a CFG approximation for C, that is fine (since we have seen that this is true). Just do not do it by saying that there is no context free grammar that recognises all valid C programs. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!tank!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Language Design, or: is C's Grammar Context Free Keywords: BNF, Grammars, Silliness Message-ID: <16807@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 9 Apr 89 05:07:12 GMT References: <5200040@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <12443@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <920@m10ux.ATT.COM> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 11