• DocumentCode
    883008
  • Title

    The Syntax of Programming Languages-A Survey

  • Author

    Floyd, Robert W.

  • Author_Institution
    Computer Associates, Inc., Wakefield, Mass.
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1964
  • Firstpage
    346
  • Lastpage
    353
  • Abstract
    The syntactic rules for many programming languages have been expressed by formal grammars, generally variants of phrase-structure grammars. The syntactic analysis essential to translation of programming languages can be done entirely mechanically for such languages. Major problems remain in rendering analyzers efficient in use of space and time and in finding fully satisfactory formal grammars for present and future programming languages.
  • Keywords
    Bismuth; Colon; Computer languages; Costs; Mathematical programming; Natural languages; Pediatrics; Reliability theory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronic Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0367-7508
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PGEC.1964.263814
  • Filename
    4038197