Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition)
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780133943023
Author: Robert W. Sebesta
Publisher: PEARSON
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BNF:

Backus-Naur Form (BNF) is unambiguous and also it is precise. It is a formal and mathematical way of representation for specifying the context-free grammars. BNF is used to describe the syntax of the Algol 60 programming language. In BNF, abstractions are used for syntactic structure.

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Extended Backus- Naur Form (EBNF) is extended version of BNF. It increases the readability and writability of BNF...

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