Fear and loathing of the "perification" of Smalltalk

Peter William Lount peter at smalltalk.org
Tue Sep 4 18:27:06 UTC 2007


Mark Volkmann wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Peter William Lount wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Jon Hylands wrote:
>>
>> > I like things that are simple. One of the reasons I like Smalltalk
>> > so much is because it is simple. The BNF chart for the language
>> > is incredibly small.
>
> Do you know where I could find a BNF chart for Smalltalk? I've 
> searched for grammars and came up empty.
>
> ---
> Mark Volkmann
>
>
Hi Mark,

The Smalltalk Blue Book has a copy of the original BNF as a visual 
diagram at the back of the book, pages 737 through 741.

You can download a pdf copy form ACM.org here:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=273&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=28725035&CFTOKEN=39135639

Peter




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