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BNF is a three-letter acronym with various meanings: The TLA (three-letter acronym or three-letter abbreviation) is a TLA and is the most popular type of abbreviation in technical terminology, and is also very common in general language. ...


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BNF and EBNF: What are they and how do they work? (3051 words)
Backus-Naur notation (more commonly known as BNF or Backus-Naur Form) is a formal mathematical way to describe a language, which was developed by John Backus (and possibly Peter Naur as well) to describe the syntax of the Algol 60 programming language.
In fact, BNF is so unambiguous that there is a lot of mathematical theory around these kinds of grammars, and one can actually mechanically construct a parser for a language given a BNF grammar for it.
BNF is sort of like a mathematical game: you start with a symbol (called the start symbol and by convention usually named S in examples) and are then given rules for what you can replace this symbol with.
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