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Article #5791Re: Allen Holub on DDJ & C-Chest (long)
From: Peter Frenning
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1988 15:51
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1988 15:51
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Yes Peter Naur was/is indeed deeply involved in language research, he was one of the eight members of the original ALGOL committe and the editor of the ALGOL 60 document, as well as the chief implementor of the worlds first functional ALGOL compiler. If my memory don't fail me it was done on a RC GIER machine, 1K 48 bit words, drum and paper tape!!! It was an eight pass compiler, very robust and great to work with. I had the pleasure of using it while I attended DIKU (Datalogisk Institut Koebenhavns Universitet, Inst. of Computer Science Univ. of Copenhagen). Peter is still professor there (or was a year ago), but hasn't to my knowledge published any major work the last decade or so. Maybe some of the current DIKU people can elaborate? Peter
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!vsi1!altnet!altos86!pfrennin From: pfrennin@altos86.UUCP (Peter Frenning) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Allen Holub on DDJ & C-Chest (long) Keywords: BNF, Naur, languages, grammar. Message-ID: <607@altos86.UUCP> Date: 30 Sep 88 15:51:27 GMT References: <1266@aucs.UUCP> Reply-To: pfrennin@altos86.UUCP (Peter Frenning) Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA Lines: 13