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How other than prose would you define it? I expect you know what you're talking about and I want to understand.
by sopooneo 12y ago
How other than prose would you define it? I expect you know what you're talking about and I want to understand.
- mbrubeck 12y agoRather than prose, the syntax for a machine-parsed data format is often defined as a formal grammar, using BNF or similar notation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form For example, this is how CSS syntax is defined: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/grammar.html http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/grammar.html or JSON: http://json.org/ http://json.org/ or HTTP: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt