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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:22:41 -0700
Subject: Re: Python Front-end to GCC
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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>> Okay.  The purpose of BNF (at least as I envision it) is to
>> produce/specify a *context-free* "grammar".  A lexer parses the tokens
>> specified in the BNF into an Abstract Syntax Tree.  If one can produce
>> such a tree for any given source, the language, in theory, can be
>> compiled by GCC into an executable.
>>
>> Boom.
>>
> But you still need to specify the semantics.

In my world, like writing pseudo-code or flow-charts, the AST *is* the
semantics.  What world are you guys from?
-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington