A method of syntax specification

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth E. Iverson

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights, NY

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1964

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Abstract

The addition of a few simple conventions to the Backus Normal Form specification of a language provides a mode of description which is more compact and easier to prepare and use than either the standard BNF description [1] or the corresponding syntactical chart [2].