Re: A database theory resource - ideas
From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:37:13 +0100
Message-ID: <45ff8eea$0$334$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:37:13 +0100
Message-ID: <45ff8eea$0$334$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>
Marshall wrote:
> It would be culturally insensitive* to judge the book and the language
> by current standards. You fault them for the lack of formality, but
> when did formal methods for describing programming languages
> really get started?
Wikipedia mentions 1956 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy )
- and 1959 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus-Naur_form ) or is this not what you meant with "really"?