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Subject: [TUHS] > there is no way that FORTRAN can be described in any syntax
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I did just that. The National Bureau of Standards picked it up
in NBS Handbook 131, "Using ANS FORTRAN" (1980). It is expressed
in the same formalism that Burroughs used for Algol.

Doug