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From: Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: The Red Language
Date: 1997/09/22
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Finally, one more reference for just learning Algol-68 in a hurry is
> Ian Currie's magnificent 70-page "yellow book" that came with Algol-68R.
> This is a masterpiece of covering a lot of critical technical material,
> at an easily readable level, in a remarkably short space. A corresponding
> Ada 95 text would be most welcome.

Could you describe just what it was that made Currie's work so
magnificent so any budding authors on the group have some pointers?
Failing that please just go ahead and write the Ada version, I'm
getting impatient :-) :-)

Chris
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