Backus-Naur Form (or Backus Normal Form). A notation for describing a formal syntax, used extensively in describing programming languages and computer-readable data formats.
Acronym for Backus-Naur Form. This was originally a syntax used to define the ALGOL programming language in the late 1950s/early 60s. First created by John Backus and refined a year later by Peter Naur. It soon became the de-facto presentation method of conveying the formal syntax of a programming language, and many programmatic syntax analysis tools (such as LEX and YACC) also use variations of this syntax.
Backus-Naur Form. Also known as Backus normal form, it was the first metalanguage to define programming languages. Introduced by John Backus in 1959 to describe the ALGOL 58 language, it was enhanced by Peter Naur and used to define ALGOL 60.
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