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* Not closed under complement or difference
* Not closed under complement or difference
* The intersection of an RL and CFL is a CFL, but CFLs are not closed under intersection
* The intersection of an RL and CFL is a CFL, but CFLs are not closed under intersection
* LL(''n''):
====Efficiently-Parsed CFLs====
* LR(''n''):
* LL(''n'') (Lewis and Stearns, 1968):
* LR(''n'') (Knuth, 1965):
===Context-Sensitive Languages===
===Context-Sensitive Languages===
* Type 1 of the Chomsky Hierarchy, a proper superset of CFL's
* Type 1 of the Chomsky Hierarchy, a proper superset of CFL's

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Formal Languages

Regular Languages (Class REG)

  • Type 3 of the Chomsky Hierarchy
  • Recognized by finite state machines. Equivalent to DSPACE(1).
  • Closed under union, concatenation, Kleene, intersection, difference, complement, reverse

Context-Free Languages (CFLs) / Grammars (CFGs)

  • Type 2 of the Chomsky Hierarchy, a proper superset of RL's
  • Recognized by nondeterministic pushdown automata
    • Deterministic pushdown automata cannot recognize all CFL's!
  • Closed under union, concatenation, Kleene, reverse
  • Not closed under complement or difference
  • The intersection of an RL and CFL is a CFL, but CFLs are not closed under intersection

Efficiently-Parsed CFLs

  • LL(n) (Lewis and Stearns, 1968):
  • LR(n) (Knuth, 1965):

Context-Sensitive Languages

  • Type 1 of the Chomsky Hierarchy, a proper superset of CFL's
  • Recognized by linear bounded automata

Recursively-Enumerable Languages (Class RE)

  • Type 0 of the Chomsky Hierarchy, a proper superset of CSL's
  • Recognized by Turing Machines