Dec 15
How about some trivia…
So you know BNF (Backus-Naur Form or originally Backus Normal Form) and EBNF (Extended Backus-Naur Form). But did you know Panini’s grammar? It defined Sanskrit using a variety of formal techniques including recursion, transformations, and metarules. That was around 500 B.C.!
See this link. And this.
Heh, that is cool, never knew to have a written language able to be defined like that, must have been quite logical.