On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 12:47 AM B 9 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:00 PM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> You know a heckuva lot more than I do, John. I had just presumed any > computer language was parsable. > > Modern structured programming language designers endeavor to make them context free. Which just means they can be described fully by a context free grammar, like BNF. Programming languages are all parseable, but where they deviate from being context free, ad hoc code handles the corner cases.
-- John.
