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Is there a BNF grammar of the TeX language?

I'm looking for a BNF grammar of the TeX language, does it exist?
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Syntax of TeX/LaTeX

{} and [] do some kind of grouping, and comma seems to be special as well. Being a programmer I find it frustrating to use Latex on incantation-only basis. I would like to know how does it exactly ...