Language Reference

The Style Sheet of Programming Languages

Describe the formal grammar of each programming language:

• Python
• C

For each language, I will go through the grammar in following order:

• Layout
  • Whitespace and indentation
  • Braces, brackets, and parentheses (in some languages)
  • Comments
• Naming Conventions
  • a (single lowercase letter)
  • A (single uppercase letter)
  • lowercase
  • lowercase_with_underscores (snake_case)
  • lowercase-with-dash (kebab-case)
  • UPPERCASE
  • UPPERCASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES
  • CapitalizedWords (PascalCase)
  • capitalizedWordsWithInitialLowercase (camelCase)
• Statements
  • Conditional statements
  • Loop statements
  • Exception handling
• Declarations
  • Variables
  • Functions
  • Constants
• Patterns - depends on language

Todo

• Add sphinx support to python stylesheet