Talk:Terminal and nonterminal symbols

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This page identifies what the terms are, but are missing why they are called that.

jptdrake 17:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

I suppose you could say that there is a process of successive substitutions involved, and when the process results in a terminal symbol, the substitution process terminates. That's the crutch I'm going use to remember the definitions, anyway. Lyle 16:21, 8 August 2007 (UTC)