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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/898489/what-programming-...

Most languages have context-free syntax, which is what the article refers too. There really is no reason to sacrifice that. Even modern PHP recognises the value of having a parse tree independent of an entire compiler.

Context-free semantics is an entirely different matter, and I'm not even sure what it'd mean...

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