Re: specifications (was Re: Languages: The Bigger the Uglier)

jgj@ssd.hcsc.com (Jeff Jackson)
20 Mar 1996 23:25:01 -0500

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From: jgj@ssd.hcsc.com (Jeff Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 20 Mar 1996 23:25:01 -0500
Organization: I would rather be windsurfing.
References: 96-02-226 96-03-096 96-03-112
Keywords: standards

I've always felt that language standards should be issued as an
implementation. That way there would never be any question as to what
was the right interpretation. You try it on the standard
implementation and whatever it does is the correct interpretation of
whatever written description is produced to accompany the standard.
--
Jeffrey Glen Jackson
--


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