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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Looking for Lisp Grammar
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In article <40cuau$kr9@post.tau.ac.il> perskyya@lune.math.tau.ac.il
(Persky Yakov) writes:

>I'm looking for Lisp  grammar. It may be in one of 2 following forms:
>    1. As a YACC file (preferrable)
>    2. In the BNF (Backus Naur Form)

Look for John Allen's _Anatomy of LISP_ (1978, McGraw-Hill; ISBN 0-07-001115-X)
which has a BNF grammar (roughly 8 lines) and discusses the semantics thereof
for roughly 400 pages.

You can also see pp. 8-9 of _LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual_ (2nd ed. 1965, MIT
Press, ISBN 0 262 13011 4).
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
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