COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Is there a widely accepted formal method for describing language semantics?

A	Yes
B	No
C	Either A or B
D	None of the above

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -There are three main styles of describing semantics: operational, denotational, and axiomatic.

Detailed explanation-2: -Formal language-generation mechanisms, usually called grammars, are commonly used to describe the syntax of programming languages.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which semantics approach is most widely known? Denotational semantics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Two of these grammar classes, named context-free and regular, turned out to be useful for describing the syntax of programming languages. The forms of the tokens of programming languages can be described by regular grammars.

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