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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Dynamicly declaring arrays (was: Time to join the fold?)
Date: 1999/02/03
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Date: 1999-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
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William Clodius <wclodius@lanl.gov> writes:

>...There was a strong feeling
> by many observers that the extensions and the reliance on VDM got out of
> hand, given that Wirth's original definition was, I believe, well under
> 50 pages.

Wirth's language descriptions are quite short, primarily because he
tends to leave out a lot of important details, IMHO.  That's his style.
I would expect a definition of any of Wirth's languages, suitable for
standardization, would be much longer than Wirth's original, even if
there were *no* extensions or use of VDM.

- Bob
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