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Language and Grammar
Introduction
To express ourselves to someone, i.e., to communicate with someone, we need some medium. That medium is language. Hindi, English, Bengali, etc., are all used by people to communicate among themselves. So, these are all languages.
For constructing a language, there are some rules. Without the rules, a language cannot exist. These rules are called the grammar for that language. Without grammar, a language cannot exist.
Formal language is an abstraction of the general characteristics of a programming language.
In computer science, to communicate with the computer hardware, the user needs some languages for programming purposes, such as C, C++, and Java. These are called programming languages. These languages are ...
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