Re: specifying semantics, was Formatting of Language LRMs
George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:43:44 -0400
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| From: | George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:43:44 -0400 |
| Organization: | A noiseless patient Spider |
| References: | 14-06-010 14-06-023 14-06-025 14-06-026 |
| Keywords: | algol60, history |
| Posted-Date: | 28 Jun 2014 23:31:55 EDT |
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 20:10:27 +0100, Andy Walker <news@cuboid.co.uk>
wrote:
>On 26/06/14 05:54, George Neuner wrote:
>> [...] What we refer to as "Backus-Naur Form"
>> today is not the original used for Algol-58, [...].
>Backus proposed his system for "metalinguistic formulae" [as used
>in the Algol 60 report] in 1959, and it was adopted by Naur, the
>editor of the papers and the report defining Algol 60.
Yup, I goofed: BNF was Algol 60, not 58.
Incidentally, Naur didn't simply adopt Backus's forms, he made a
number of improvements. There was a move early to call it Backus
Normal Form, but Naur's contribution was deemed significant enough
that it came to called Backus-Naur instead.
George
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