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Panini's work is considered to be the precursor of Backus-Naur form.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form#History https://en.wikipedia
by maverick_iceman 9y ago
Panini's work is considered to be the precursor of Backus-Naur form.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form#Histo...
- dedalus 9y agoIn fact it was generative. In that, you could not speak the language for 1000 years and still generate all valid strings that can be thought of as members of the language
- maverick_iceman 9y agoWhy isn't that trivially true of all languages? You can generate infinitely many valid strings of arbitrary length in any grammar. How's that special about Sanskrit?