Is it possible to generate a context-free grammar for a programming language?

Not knowing enough on how a compiler work, is it just treating all
keyword as string of terminals? Then replace all variables based on
the declaration, through assignment or passing into a function/method/
constructor? Is there certain syntax is not as straight forward so
add-on logic is required to determine the replacement of the string
intelligently?

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