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		chrisseaton on May 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The naked truth about writing a programming langua... > Most languages have context-free syntax Do they? I haven't done a survey of languages but I would guess most are context-sensitive.

bmn__ on May 3, 2020 [–]

I would guess so, too. In my experience, they do strive to be CF, the CS parts express mildly/are few and far between and often are accidental.

That makes using a CFG parser practical and hacking around the problems caused by CS does not take much effort.

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