Re: New symbolic/numeric/dynamic/intuitive programming language

COBOL actually had at least one good idea: PICture clauses. ...
(Asking about BNF used likewise in any modern programming language.)
From: Michael Press <rub...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Are you saying that lex and yacc fail this test?

Neither of those is a general-purpose programming language.

Furthermore lex uses regular expressions, not BNF.

I can't tell from 'man yacc' what format it uses for the syntax
spec. Google turns up <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacc> which
says it uses something similar to BNF, but the resultant
(generated) parser requires a lexical analyzer, such as lex.
So I guess you meant the combination together? Still that's only a
way to generate C sourcecode for a parser for syntax, which would
then have to be somehow integrated into a program, which would
presumably have to be written in C. That C program would then have
to do all the work of building the abstract parse tree in RAM to
represent the syntax that had been parsed. Even so, I see no
obvious way to generate formatted output, i.e. reverse the parsing
task, using the same BNF definition of the syntax.
.

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