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

Part of the reason for answer "No", is it because programming language
such as C has ambigous syntax (i.e. series of if-else clause,
declaration vs usage of pointer?)? So context-free grammar cannot be
generated? If so, assuming there's a Turing-machine to execute this
string of C source code, can we hard-code some work-around logic in
the machine to make it to work?

Thanks
Jimmy

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