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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Formal Definition of Hypertalk
Message-ID: <45569@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Oct 90 16:38:37 GMT
References: <11858@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <11858@pucc.Princeton.EDU> EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>     1.  How's the standardization effort?

Standardization? Of a language that exists in only one implementation? Uh...

>     2.  Does anybody have a Backus-Naur and/or yacc definition of
>         the language that they can share with me.

*HyperTalk 2.0: The Book* (ISBN 0-553-34737-3) has a railroad-car syntax
description of HyperTalk 1.2 and 2.0. I haven't gone over it, but since
one of the co-authors of the book is the designer of HyperTalk, I assume
it's accurate & complete :-)
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