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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.scheme.c
Subject: Re: Need C language Description
Message-ID: <590@sas.UUCP>
Date: 6 Aug 88 00:31:53 GMT
References: <12707@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1104@garth.UUCP>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <1104@garth.UUCP> smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
|>                                                       However, he needs
|>a formal language description of C, and so far neither one of us have been 
|>able to find one.
|
|You can get a language description out of K+R, but forget about a formal
|definition unless you want to do it yourself.

Well, H&S has a good formal BNF grammar (which I have used).  As for
semantics, I'd recommend ANSI.  It's close enough to finished to be
relavent, and it's the only formal (even if it is English-like) semantic
description I've ever seen of C.

H&S = "Harbison & Steele"  Available at local bookstores.
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