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I am confused wheter EBNF can be considered as a Programming language which is turing complete?
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To answer your question, no, Extended Backus–Naur Form (EBNF) is not a programming language. It is a metasyntax notation.
While a language is a way to describe an algorithm (what a computer should do), metasyntax is a way to describe a language.
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