Intermediate Python user needed help

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.2984.1344208723.4697.python-list at python.org>,
 Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:

> On 08/05/12 17:00, John Mordecai Dildy wrote:
> > since when did we start talking about lisp?
> 
> Though not a lisper, the Python tie-in was my reply:  Python (among
> many other languages) doesn't allow a "-" as a character in
> identifiers as you appeared to use it in your code.  Unlike HTML,
> XML, CSS, and apparently lisp and COBOL (thanks, MRAB, for ripping
> open that scab after years of trying to repress those COBOL memories
> :-)   where identifiers may contain the dash.
> 
> -tkc

Does BNF count as a language?