Abstract
In this chapter, you learn about:
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the building blocks of formal languages: alphabets and strings
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grammars and languages
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a way of classifying grammars and languages: the Chomsky hierarchy
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how formal languages relate to the definition of programming programming languages
…. and you are introduced to:
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writing definitions of sets of strings
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producing sentences from grammars
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using the notation of formal languages.
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Parkes, A.P. (2002). Elements of Formal Languages. In: Introduction to Languages, Machines and Logic. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0143-7_2
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