I can't help but agree with Temporal's comment in that thread: it reads like a practical joke. Both.the extensive pointless histories, presenting unreadable gra

I can't help but agree with Temporal's comment in that thread: it reads like a practical joke. Both.the extensive pointless histories, presenting unreadable grammars, then BNF variants, then dismissing the BNF variants for a variant over the unreadable grammars. At the same time I don't think it was a joke. So many CS papers are infested with excessive use of formalisms that makes the papers less accessible for no gain.