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Re: Algorithms beyond programming

The term parse as you use it Pyrotex is incorrect. To parse is to identify the relationship between the words or parts of a sentence. A parser accepts and rejects input.

The FSM is an automaton that is capable of parsing what are known as linear grammars. These are simple grammars. Push down automatons are required for the next level of grammar complexity called the context free grammars.

I'm not surprised that you have not heard parse used correctly. It rarely is.

Another example of the misuse of language is found in a company where they told people to "solution the problem." No one solved problems there. I always imagined the bosses stirring large vats of liquid trying to create solutions.
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