Re: A Plain English Compiler

lesliedellow@gmail.com
Sat, 25 Oct 2014 06:01:38 -0700 (PDT)

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From: lesliedellow@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 06:01:38 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 14-10-005 06-02-122 06-02-125
Keywords: parse, history
Posted-Date: 25 Oct 2014 11:14:46 EDT

I wonder if the OP has a clue how compilers work? If he has, he might
want to try his hand at writing a BNF grammar for English.


And I wish him the best of luck.


[As I said back in 2006, it's not hard to make an easy to parse subset of English,
but that's COBOL. -John]



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