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META II was basically a proof of concept. A base from which to work.
<blockquote>'''META II''' is not presented as a ''standard language'', but as a point of departure from which a user may develop his own ''META'' "''language''".<ref name="METAII"/></blockquote>
Many META "languages" followed. Shorre went to work for [[System Development Corporation]] where he was a member of the Compiler for Writing and Implementing Compilers (CWIC) project. CWIC's SYNTAX language built on META II adding a backtrack alternative operator positive and negative look ahead operators and programmed token equations. The <code>'''.OUT'''</code> and <code>'''.LABEL'''</code> operations removed and stack transforming operations <code>''':
<blockquote>The term ''META'' "language" with ''META'' in capital letters is used to denote any compiler-writing ''language'' so developed.<ref name="METAII"/></blockquote>
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