From: tk@ic.unicamp.br   
      
   compilers-owner@lists.iecc.com wrote:   
      
   > [Algol W was somewhere between Algol 60 and Pascal, with records and   
   > defined I/O, and no call by name.  It was different enough from its   
   > predecessors to be called a language. -John]   
      
   I have the impression that Algol W was designed so that it could be   
   parsed using simple precedence grammars defined by Wirth and Weber as a   
   generalization of operator precedence grammars.   
      
   -- Tomasz Kowaltowski   
   [I'm not surprised, the state of parsing was pretty primitive at the time.   
   -John]   
      
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