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From: jr@forcm5.UUCP (John Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: What's an Augmented Transition Network?
Message-ID: <144@forcm5.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 3-Mar-84 17:07:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  3 17:07:19 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 04:01:44 EST
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Hi.  In the new issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal (DDJ), there's a review of a book
entitled "Augmented Transition Networks."  The review begins:

	"Confused by the title?  Well, if you are not sure what an Augmented
	Transition Network is I'll try to explain.  An Augmented Transition
	Network (ATN) is used in the design of interpreters, compilers, and
	editors as a method of factoring the input."

The review goes on to imply that ATNs are somehow related to parsing, but
doesn't give any more detail.  Can anyone tell me what ATNs are?  I've looked
in my collection of compiler books, and every other place I can think of, and
I can't find anything about them.  HELP!!!!

More information: the full citation for the book is "Augmented Transition
Networks," edited by Leonard Bolc, published by Springer-Verlag, 1983, $29.00,
213 pages.  The book contains four papers, with titles "The Planes Interpreter
and Compiler for ATN Grammars," "An ATN Programming Environment," "Compiling
ATN into MacLisp," and "Towards an Elastic ATN Implementation."  The review is
by Chuck Ballinger, and it's in the March 1984 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, on
page 90.

				Thanks in advance...
-- 
				JR (John Rogers)
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