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Re:My first fifteen compilers by Waterluvian on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:09AM (#15159943)
You got me thinking. Can a human language like English be defined with an AST? If so, are there examples? If not, why not? I suspect the answer might be, "yes, it's called [this thing I've heard of a thousand times but never considered it to be a language compiler]"
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Re:My first fifteen compilers by general_pizza on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:46AM (#15160179)
I've heard of sentence diagrams[0] which are tree-like structures used for checking grammatical correctness.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_diagram

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