Also of interest: Baker, H. "Pragmatic Parsing in Common Lisp", 1991.[0]
(which itself refers to Schorre, D.V. "META II: A Syntax-Oriented
Compiler Writing Language". Proc. 19'th Nat'l. Conf. of the ACM (Aug.
1964) [1])
-Dave
[0] http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/Prag-Parse.html
[1] cf http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.html
some quotes from a half-century ago:
Each equation ends with a semicolon which, due to keypunch
limitations, is represented by a period followed by a comma.
The omission of statement labels from VALGOL I and VALGOL II seems
strange to most programmers.
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