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- Data formats are also formal languages. More and more data
in interchangeable format look like a formal language (e.g. HTML, XML)
- Compiler techniques are useful for reading, manipulating, and
writing data
- Besides, compilers are excellent examples of large and complex
system
- which can be specified rigorously
- which can be implemented only by combining theory and practice
Christoph Zenger
3/16/2000