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Questions about the set of languages (equivalently) described by context-free grammars or accepted by (non-deterministic) pushdown automata.

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Which programming languages have a syntax that can be described by deterministic context-fre...

This question asks which programming languages have a syntax that cannot be described by deterministic context-free grammars - the answer is "Many [...] including Algol 60, C, and C++". Until recentl …
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Detect (indirect) left-recursion in a context-free grammar?

Given a context-free grammar: A -> α0 | α1 | ... B -> β0 | β1 | ... ... It's straightforward to determine whether the grammar is directly left-recursive - it is, if any of the αi begin with A, or any …
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Does a language recognizer require an unambiguous context-free grammar?

The reference manual for Lua contains a complete EBNF grammar for the language. However, it's simplified compared to the grammar used by the actual Lua parser. In particular, the simplified grammar is …
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