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From: boebert@sctc.com (Earl Boebert)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Algol was an advance, was He's not the only one at it again!
Message-ID: <1990Jul31.185100.2865@sctc.com>
Date: 31 Jul 90 18:51:00 GMT
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tom@stl.stc.co.uk (Tom Thomson) writes:

>In article <1990Jul30.174035.26412@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>>(Of course, just because Algol has a context-free easy-to-tokenize syntax
>>doesn't mean that actual implementations all do.  There was IBM's Algol F,
>>which ignored blanks and required you to put quotes around your keywords,
>>proving once again that Real programmers can write Fortran programs in any
>>language.

>What's been forgotten here is that ALL the early implementations of Algol
>had this problem, it's NOT an IBM Algol F problem.
>
 
[Stuff deleted ...]

>Tom Thomson   [tom @ nw.stl.stc.co.uk

I don't recall GEIR Algol as having special delimeters for reserved words;
will check my old class notes from Naur's course to be sure and report
later ...

Earl