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From: rdh@myrias.com (Dale Hagglund)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Algol 68 info
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Date: 11 Jan 90 06:08:39 GMT
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In-Reply-To: chl@cs.man.ac.uk's message of 9 Jan 90 10:40:04 GMT

tom@usblues.UUCP (Tom Markson) writes:
>decendents.  Does anyone know how one can obtain either the original or 
>any revised papers about Algol-68?

I recommend

	"A Practical Guide to Algol68"

by Frank G. Pagan, published by John Wiley and Sons.  From the point
of view of actually using the language, it is much more useful than
the formal definition of the language, the Algol 68 Revised Report,
which is largely impenetrable unless you know W-grammars (cf.
double-level grammars).  For an introduction to W-grammars, see

	"Grammars for Programming Languages"

by J. Craig Cleaveland and Robert C. Uzgalis, published by Elsevier.
It is, I believe, currently out of print.
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Dale Hagglund					rdh@myrias.com
Myrias Research, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada	{uunet,alberta}!myrias!rdh