Re: Algol 60 Syntax

Dan Sutton wrote
>So: Does anyone out there have a copy of the bloody syntax definitions
>for this language? If so, I'd be extremely appreciative if they could
>email them to me (I don't care about the format: even scanned in
>pictures of the paper documents would do) so that I can enter them
>into this parser and see what the hell it generates.




The ``Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60'' is contained
in


        ftp://ftp.ptc.spbu.ru/pub/unix/lang/a60/a60-nase-0.17.3.tgz (236 KB)


as a texinfo source. From this:


%% This note is taken from the end of the report:
%%
%% Note. This report is published in Numerische Mathematik, in
%% the Communications of the ACM, and in the Journal of the
%% British Computer Soc. Reproduction of this report for any
%% purpose is explicitly permitted; reference should be made
%% to this issue of Numerische Mathematik and to the respective
%% issues of the Communications and the Journal of the British
%% Computer Soc. as the source.


Perhaps someone expirienced in TeX can convert this to HTML.
I'm sure, the moderator would be happy to place a copy at his site ?


Andreas.
[I like the Postscript version. -John]

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