Peter,
I am sorry I have not been tracking the list recently : this publication
may help :
A. E. Negus. Development of the Euronet-Diane Common Command Language.
In Proceedings 3rd Int'l Online Information Meeting, pages 95-98.
Learned Information, Oxford, U.K., 1979.
Unfortunately our copy appears to be in London so I can't see it
immediately.
Bill
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> > >
> > Yep.. and the ISO standard is based on other standards that go
further
> > back... I've heard rumors that it was originally a Danish
specification,
> > which would be particularly ironic since one of the fathers of Algol
and
> > BNF (Peter Naur) was a Dane.. still legendary around the institute
of
> > Computer Science in Copenhagen for his draconian approach to
> > grading papers.
> >
>
> My understanding is that the original documents for CCL were produced
by
> Alan Negus in the UK, partly on contract to the BL, where I was at the
> time,
> in the mid-late '70s. I don't know if his work was based on a still
> earlier
> document, but I don't think so. Bill, do you have any recollection of
> this?
>
> Peter Noerr
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