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A method of syntax specification

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 7 , Issue 10 (October 1964) table of contents

Pages: 588 - 589

Year of Publication: 1964

ISSN:0001-0782

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Kenneth E. Iverson

IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights, NY

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The addition of a few simple conventions to the Backus Normal Form specification of a language provides a mode of description which is more compact and easier to prepare and use than either the standard BNF description [1] or the corresponding syntactical chart [2].

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	1	Peter Naur , J. W. Backus , F. L. Bauer , J. Green , C. Katz , J. McCarthy , A. J. Perlis , H. Rutishauser , K. Samelson , B. Vauquois , J. H. Wegstein , A. van Wijngaarden , M. Woodger, Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60, Communications of the ACM, v.3 n.5, p.299-314, May 1960 [doi>10.1145/367236.367262]
	2	Warren Taylor , Lloyd Turner , Richard Waychoff, A syntactical chart of ALGOL 60, Communications of the ACM, v.4 n.9, p.393, Sept. 1961 [doi>10.1145/366696.366766]
	3	J. W. Backus , F. L. Bauer , J. Green , C. Katz , J. McCarthy , A. J. Perlis , H. Rutishauser , K. Samelson , B. Vauquois , J. H. Wegstein , A. van Wijngaarden , M. Woodger , P. Naur, Revised report on the algorithm language ALGOL 60, Communications of the ACM, v.6 n.1, p.1-17, Jan. 1963 [doi>10.1145/366193.366201]

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	Walter H. Burkhardt, Metalanguage and syntax specification, Communications of the ACM, v.8 n.5, p.304-305, May 1965
	Walter H. Burkhardt, Letters to the editor: syntax and generalization of ALGOL 60, Communications of the ACM, v.8 n.5, p.261, May 1965
	Walter H. Burkhardt, Letters to the editor: syntax and generalization of ALGOL 60, Communications of the ACM, v.8 n.5, p.261, May 1965
	Bruce W. Arden, The role of programming in a Ph.D. computer science program, Communications of the ACM, v.12 n.1, p.31-37, Jan. 1969
	John W. Carr, III , Jerome Welland, A nonrecursive method of syntax specification, Communications of the ACM, v.9 n.4, p.267-269, April 1966
	Lee Schmidt, Letters to the editor: on syntax specification, Communications of the ACM, v.8 n.5, p.262, May 1965
	John J. Donovan , Henry F. Ledgard, A formal system for the specification of the syntax and translation of computer languages, Proceedings of the November 14-16, 1967, fall joint computer conference, November 14-16, 1967, Anaheim, California
	Gordon Whitney, An extended BNF for specifying the syntax of declarations, Proceedings of the May 14-16, 1969, spring joint computer conference, May 14-16, 1969, Boston, Massachusetts