• In computer science, BackusNaur form (BNF; /ˌbækəs ˈnaʊər/; Backus normal form) is a notation used to describe the syntax of programming languages or...
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  • In computer science, extended BackusNaur form (EBNF) is a family of metasyntax notations, any of which can be used to express a context-free grammar....
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  • In computer science, augmented BackusNaur form (ABNF) is a metalanguage based on BackusNaur form (BNF), but consisting of its own syntax and derivation...
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    winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the BackusNaur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming...
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    used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the BackusNaur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages...
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  • Translational BackusNaur Form (TBNF or Translational BNF) refers to BackusNaur form, which is a formal grammar notation used to define the syntax of...
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  • bar unusable as the regular expression "alternative" operator. In BackusNaur form, an expression consists of sequences of symbols and/or sequences separated...
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  • 2021-03-05. Here: p.354 Knuth, Donald E. (December 1964). "Backus Normal Form vs. Backus Naur Form". Communications of the ACM. 7 (12): 735–736. doi:10.1145/355588...
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  • computer languages are BackusNaur form (BNF), extended BackusNaur form (EBNF), Wirth syntax notation (WSN), and augmented BackusNaur form (ABNF). Metalanguages...
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    in addresses 21210 and 21310 (D416 and D516). Atari BASIC supported BackusNaur form. It has been in a part documented by Carol Shaw. Shaw, together with...
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    formal language definition and through the Algol 60 Report introduced BackusNaur form, a principal formal grammar notation for language design. There were...
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  • grammar. They represent a graphical alternative to BackusNaur form, EBNF, Augmented BackusNaur form, and other text-based grammars as metalanguages. Early...
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    computer science, a popular notation for context-free grammars is BackusNaur form, or BNF. Since at least the time of the ancient Indian scholar Pāṇini...
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  • an input to a parser generator. It often resembles BackusNaur form (BNF), extended BackusNaur form (EBNF), or has its own syntax. Grammar files describe...
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    Adaptive grammar Ambiguous grammar BackusNaur form (BNF) Categorial grammar Concrete syntax tree Extended BackusNaur form (EBNF) Grammar Grammar framework...
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    which is a Type-2 grammar, generally given as production rules in BackusNaur form (BNF). Phrase grammars are often specified in much more constrained...
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  • Originally proposed by Niklaus Wirth in 1977 as an alternative to BackusNaur form (BNF). It has several advantages over BNF in that it contains an explicit...
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  • declared before use which is impossible to describe in the extended BackusNaur form and thus not easily detected during parsing. Attribute grammar Context-sensitive...
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  • (DFA)-based lexers with full Unicode support and lexical states. Extended BackusNaur form grammar syntax. (Supports the *, ? and + operators). LALR(1) based...
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  • code) based on a formal grammar, written in a notation similar to BackusNaur form (BNF). Yacc is supplied as a standard utility on BSD and AT&T Unix...
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    acyclic graph (DAG) Document Object Model (DOM) Expression tree Extended BackusNaur form Lisp, a family of languages written in trees, with macros to manipulate...
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  • to Iota that supports input and output. Note that this article uses Backus-Naur form to describe syntax. Chris Barker's universal iota combinator ι has...
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  • Expression templates allow users to approximate the syntax of extended BackusNaur form (EBNF) completely in C++. Parser objects are composed through operator...
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  • or ↔. This definition can also be written as a formal grammar in BackusNaur form, provided the set of variables is finite: <alpha set> ::= p | q | r...
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  • In syntax diagrams they are used for grouping, such as in extended BackusNaur form. In Mathematica and the Wolfram language, parentheses are used to indicate...
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    programmers to form constants, variable names, structure names, and function names. Syntax Rules are defined in the BackusNaur form. Programming languages...
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  • structured design. Algol was first to define its syntax using the BackusNaur form. This led to syntax-directed compilers. It added features like: block...
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  • contents. A syslog message is formatted (RFC 5424 gives the Augmented BackusNaur form (ABNF) definition), but its MSG field is not. The network protocol...
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  • will halt at depth n. BackusNaur form Chomsky normal form Kuroda normal form Greibach, Sheila (January 1965). "A New Normal-Form Theorem for Context-Free...
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  • and its syntax was the first to be described in formal notation – BackusNaur form (BNF). During roughly the same period, COBOL introduced records (also...
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