Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Neil Cerutti Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python Front-end to GCC Date: 22 Oct 2013 20:00:27 GMT Organization: Norwich University Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <4012031f-5334-4be8-a673-e0d8c8917fb2@googlegroups.com> <5a4e0ec9-c977-4a86-83b0-9f4c55a82e37@googlegroups.com> <54f8eb09-7a2e-4306-86f2-7ae118fa8055@googlegroups.com> <52669DC3.5010601@nedbatchelder.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net FC0ux/k6uYUfAV0d/rNsvgp7aInoGHrg8I1/47UUavCH6ZLSTb Cancel-Lock: sha1:XpNXmre8h4NCqccvO3cAOtdKxgQ= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1/mm/ao (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:57308 On 2013-10-22, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 22/10/2013 20:27, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> On 2013-10-22, Piet van Oostrum wrote: >>> Neil Cerutti writes: >>>> Context-sensitive grammars can be parse, too. >>> >>> That's not English. Do you mean "parsed"? >> >> Thanks, yes, I meant parsed. >> >>> But context-sentitive grammars cannot be specified by BNF. >> >> Yes. I thought Mark might have had a misconception that all >> programming languages have to be defined in BNF. > > Please be kind enough to disambiguate Mark, as I would not wish > to be tarred with the same brush. Oops! I didn't notice he'd dropped out of the attributions. I was speculating about Mark Janssen, not you. -- Neil Cerutti