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N. Wirth - Recollections about the development of Pascal (HOPL II).pdf
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> ... The current ISO draft of Modula-2 contains a full formal semantics. Do you consider this useful? Not really. It makes the report too voluminous for the reader. The Modula-2 report is 45 pages and the formal standardization document is about one thousand pages long. The definition of the empty statement alone takes a full page. The difference is intolerable.