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Considerations for future programming language standards activities

By John A. N. Lee
Communications of the ACM, November 1977, Vol. 20 No. 11, Pages 788-794
10.1145/359863.359866
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This paper reviews the current state of programming language standards activities with respect to the anomalies which exist between the various published and proposed standards for Fortran, Cobol, PL/I, and Basic. Proposals are made for the inclusion of formalisms within future standards and the extension of the standards to include additional items such as error conditions and documentation.

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