The identifiers and numbers in programming languages can be described by a regular grammar.
The nested expressions and blocks in programming languages can be described by a context-free grammar.
Neither a regular nor a context-free grammar can describe the rule that a variable must be declared before it is used.
Grammars are language recognition devices as well as language generative devices.
An ambiguous grammar poses a problem for language recognition.
Two parse trees for the same sentence from a language are sufficient to prove that the grammar for the language is ambiguous.
Semantic properties, including precedence and associativity, can be modeled in a context-free grammar.
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