</pre><BR><BR>This is unacceptable for my needs. The command syntax has to be parsable and the command itself must also be parsable based on the syntax.<BR><BR>To solve this I came up with 2 BNF ...

We start our discussion of syntax and how we morph words into questions and stories. Grammar sometimes gets a bad reputation, but we're actually doing grammar all the time! And we're pretty good at it ...