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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 18 , Issue 11 (November 1975) table of contents

Pages: 639 - 650

Year of Publication: 1975

ISSN:0001-0782

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Susan L. Graham	Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley
Steven P. Rhodes	Bell Labs., Greensboro, NC

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper describes a recovery scheme for syntax errors which provides automatically-generated high quality recovery with good diagnostic information at relatively low cost. Previous recovery techniques are summarized and empirical comparisons are made. Suggestions for further research on this topic conclude the paper.

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