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  • 2.1: Motivation for Formal Languages

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: S. Amarasinghe and M. Rinard's "Specifying Languages with Regular Expressions and Context-Free Grammars" URL

      Study slides 2 - 8, and slides 38 - 41. Regular and context-free languages are introduced. Also, read slides 68 - 70.

    • Stanford University: Keith Schwarz's "Formal Grammars" URL

      Read pages 10 - 11, which give some history of FORTRAN and ALGOL.

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