Quote: Backus used Post's productions to formalize IAL's grammar; simplified by Naur for ALGOL 60

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As soon as the need for precise description … [of IAL/Algol 58] … hastily adapted them for use in describing the … As far as I know the paper had … the notation … , improved its readability by not abbreviating the … definitive paper on that language.   Google-1   Google-2

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