X-Received: by 10.58.219.105 with SMTP id pn9mr3147462vec.30.1403313370307; Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!enother.net!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!w8no7859390qac.0!news-out.google.com!a8ni11914qaq.1!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: "lpsantil@gmail.com" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Formatting of Language LRMs Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 9 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-06-013@comp.compilers> References: <14-06-010@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1403313369 36017 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (21 Jun 2014 01:16:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 01:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: standards Posted-Date: 20 Jun 2014 21:16:09 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Received-Bytes: 1513 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3183167507 Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1268 Personally, I enjoy Wirth Syntax Notation (WSN)[1] more than BNF/EBNF. There are wikipedia entries, I believe, also incorrectly identifies the PL/0 language grammar (also Wirth's work)[2][3] as EBNF when it is WSN. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth_syntax_notation [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_descent_parser [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/0