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Your BNF definition of the language, expanded into a reference manual perhaps using the bnf Analyzer software described in Chapter 4, is the detailed design, or requirements document, for your compiler. It explains, in enough usable detail, the semantic effect at runtime of user statements.
The question whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
—Edsger Dijkstra
‘What do you read, my lord?’ ‘Words, words, words.’
—William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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Nilges, E.G. (2004). The Lexical Analyzer for the QuickBasic Compiler. In: Build Your Own .NET Language and Compiler. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0698-9_5
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