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The theory and practice of classical “top-down” parsing methods is presented in a tutorial manner.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, California, USA

    Donald E. Knuth

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This paper is essentially a transscript of five expository lectures which were presented at the NATO International Summer School on Computer Programming, in Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 1967. The author wishes to thank V. Tixier and R. Guedj for their assistance in preparing the first draft of these lecture notes.

The publication of this paper was supported in part by IBM Corporation.

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Knuth, D.E. Top-down syntax analysis. Acta Informatica 1, 79–110 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00289517

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