RE: Regular and Context-Free languages

2002-08-12 Thread Thom Boyer
Steve Find said on August 09, 2002 6:24 PM: >Anyone happen to know where pushdown automata fit in this list? Can >they handle context-sensitive, just context-free, or some other >subset? Mark Reed said on August 09, 2002 7:60 PM: >To recognize a context-sensitive language I think you need a Turin

Re: Regular and Context-Free languages

2002-08-09 Thread Steve Fink
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:50:00PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 05:23:58PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:05:00AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: > > > Finite state machines can match regular expressions whose only operations > > > are closure (*), alter

Re: Regular and Context-Free languages

2002-08-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 05:23:58PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > Wow. Since you went to the trouble of writing all this up, it really > ought to go in a FAQ somewhere. It probably already is in a FAQ somewhere; I just don't know where. :) > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:05:00AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrot

Re: Regular and Context-Free languages

2002-08-09 Thread Steve Fink
Wow. Since you went to the trouble of writing all this up, it really ought to go in a FAQ somewhere. On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 12:05:00AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: > Finite state machines can match regular expressions whose only operations > are closure (*), alternation (|), and grouping. Some of