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   glen herrmannsfeldt to Ivan Godard   
   Re: Formatting of Language LRMs   
   21 Jun 14 02:27:28   
   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Ivan Godard  wrote:   
      
   (snip)   
      
   > Two very important cases not following this practice: Algol68, which   
   > used van Wijngaarten notation ("VWG"), and Ada where the standard is   
   > defined by a test suite. There are Ada manuals, but if the manual   
   > differs from the suite then the suite governs.   
      
   Not so long ago, regarding a question that I think was from this   
   group, but maybe a different one, I downloaded the Algol-68   
   description.  I could see that the information was there, but it was   
   too hard to figure out the answer to the question.   
      
   I have an actual book on Algol-60.   
      
   -- glen   
   [I had the same problem, the Algol68 language is great, but the   
   description is impenetrable. -John]   
      
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