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oldmanhorton
on Nov 10, 2016
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Writing Your Own Programming Language
It is not - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
for the where these terms come from. Context-free grammars are strict supersets of regular grammars and cover the vast majority of programming language constructs.
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