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| Formatting of Language LRMs seimarao@gmail.com (Seima Rao) (2014-06-17) |
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| From: | glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Sat, 21 Jun 2014 02:27:28 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| References: | 14-06-010 14-06-016 |
| Keywords: | standards, comment |
| Posted-Date: | 21 Jun 2014 12:22:02 EDT |
Ivan Godard <ivan@ootbcomp.com> wrote:
(snip)
> Two very important cases not following this practice: Algol68, which
> used van Wijngaarten notation ("VWG"), and Ada where the standard is
> defined by a test suite. There are Ada manuals, but if the manual
> differs from the suite then the suite governs.
Not so long ago, regarding a question that I think was from this
group, but maybe a different one, I downloaded the Algol-68
description. I could see that the information was there, but it was
too hard to figure out the answer to the question.
I have an actual book on Algol-60.
-- glen
[I had the same problem, the Algol68 language is great, but the
description is impenetrable. -John]
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