Re: specifications (was Re: Languages: The Bigger the Uglier)

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>
> Reference implementations:
>
> How many people reading this newsgroup knew that there _is_ a
> "Model Implementation of Standard Pascal"?
> --
> Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~ok; RMIT Comp.Sci.
> [Don't leave us in suspense -- where is it? -John]


Would this be _A Model Implementation of Standard Pascal_, by
Jim Welsh & Atholl Hay, Prentice-Hall, 1986, ISBN 0-13-586454-2?


It is the extensively commented source code for a Standard Pascal
compiler and p-code interpreter, in Pascal. The book says that the
software is available from the British Standards Institute; I've
heard rumors that the software may be on the net, but have never
seen it.
--
T. Kurt Bond, tkb@sol.newnet.navy.mil
[Ah, that book. Sad but true: it cost $24.95 when it came out ten years ago,
now it's $71.00. -John]


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