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Panani has not really got his due. While celebrated in India he remains vastly unrecognized. He invented what we now call Context-Free-Grammar.
by KorematsuFred 8y ago
Panani has not really got his due. While celebrated in India he remains vastly unrecognized. He invented what we now call Context-Free-Grammar.
- ncmncm 8y agoIt would be better to say he invented all generative grammars, among which the context-free form is noted as easy to parse. In consequence, it suffers from limited conciseness. The piece doesn't say outright that nothing in Chomsky is original to him, but it is a necessary conclusion.