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Article #6636Re: Algol 68 info
From: Dale Hagglund
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 06:08
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 06:08
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tom@usblues.UUCP (Tom Markson) writes:
>decendents. Does anyone know how one can obtain either the original or
>any revised papers about Algol-68?
I recommend
"A Practical Guide to Algol68"
by Frank G. Pagan, published by John Wiley and Sons. From the point
of view of actually using the language, it is much more useful than
the formal definition of the language, the Algol 68 Revised Report,
which is largely impenetrable unless you know W-grammars (cf.
double-level grammars). For an introduction to W-grammars, see
"Grammars for Programming Languages"
by J. Craig Cleaveland and Robert C. Uzgalis, published by Elsevier.
It is, I believe, currently out of print.
--
Dale Hagglund rdh@myrias.com
Myrias Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada {uunet,alberta}!myrias!rdh
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