EBNF is awkward if you're describing a typical regular grammar. It's very natural for typical context-free grammars. The dirty secret of CS school is that your

EBNF is awkward if you're describing a typical regular grammar. It's very natural for typical context-free grammars. The dirty secret of CS school is that your theory course is mostly about parsing until you get to turing machines (I joke, but only kind of)