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		choeger on March 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore Because pretty much the whole science of parsing is built for context-free languages. Yes, of course, you can ignore science when you do your thing, but please don't call yourself an engineer, then ;).

sharpneli on March 17, 2022 [–]

And as an engineer you can slap on a symbol table and it works like a context free language after that.

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