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  • abbreviation computing Backus-Naur form (originally Backus normal form).

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Examples

  • BNF is working with ACORN to deflect the outrageous charges against the national voter registration organization that have been circulated widely in the media and to expose the parties behind the attacks as collaborators in a long history of right wing voter intimidation and suppression.

    Brave New Films and ACORN Release Video Calling Out Dirty McCain Campaign Tactics | Disinformation 2008

  • Here we have used the so-called BNF notation, very convenient in computing science.

    Type Theory Coquand, Thierry 2006

  • The BNF was the only other party, except for the BDP, which featured in the election.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • The BNF was the official opposition for many years and its seats increased from three to 13 in parliament after the 1994 elections, posing the first serious threat to the BDP.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • The BNF is the 'drugs bible' for health professionals.

    Releases feed from RealWire 2009

  • There were other terms such as BNF - Big Name Fan, but these three are very telling.

    26th October '03 2003

  • According to a really *excellent* book I bought, published in 1975, called "The Science Fiction Book: An Illustrated History", widely known slang terms we use today such as BNF and fandom date as far back as the forties, though one would assume that the book they're quoting from is only recording a phenomenon that had been around for years!

    26th October '03 2003

  • One 'BNF' that made good was the brilliant Arthur C. Clarke, who was quite the Sci-Fi fan in his beginning days.

    26th October '03 2003

  • Ask them to speak about some site they have done, and they are proud of. as well as basic computer science concepts such as BNF, data normalization, OOP, MVC, etc.

    Slashdot: Apache 2010

  • Commenting on the new edition, Martin Kendall OBE, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Birmingham Medical school says: "The BNF has been a trusted source of prescribing information for decades, and BNF 57 is no exception.

    Releases feed from RealWire 2009

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