COMP 5807 [0.5 credit] (CSI 5104)
Formal Language and Syntax Analysis
Computability, unsolvable and NP-hard problems. Formal languages, classes of languages, automata. Principles of compiler design, syntax analysis, parsing (top-down, bottom-up), ambiguity, operator precedence, automatic construction of efficient parsers, LR, LR (O), LR(k), SLR, LL(k); syntax directed translation. (Also listed as MATH 5807.)Prerequisite: COMP 3002, or MATH 4805 or MATH 5605, or the equivalent.
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