From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [50.116.15.146]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0AC32A381 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2024 01:25:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B7AF4268D; Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:25:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.kaybuena.com (071-042-153-194.biz.spectrum.com [71.42.153.194]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 111C942453 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:25:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [192.168.147.2] (4dot2 [71.42.153.195]) by mail.kaybuena.com (8.17.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 437NPTtv875747 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 2024 18:25:30 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 18:25:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: coff@tuhs.org References: <1d3f129c-eafe-4fb2-9ea2-d949f3813c88@technologists.com> Content-Language: en-US From: "Charles H Sauer (he/him)" In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.4 (mail.kaybuena.com [71.42.153.194]); Sun, 07 Apr 2024 18:25:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID-Hash: AVUPRMCFVN77DWPIWI4AD2IYFPGUKGY7 X-Message-ID-Hash: AVUPRMCFVN77DWPIWI4AD2IYFPGUKGY7 X-MailFrom: sauer@technologists.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: Of PL/I List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 4/7/2024 6:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote: > > [...] > >> I wrote a Fortran to PL/I crude translator in SNOBOL [...] > > Gadzooks... For our "write a simple compiler" assignment I threatened to > use SNOBOL, but my lecturer (Ken Robinson) threatened to fail me :-) > > -- Dave SNOBOL fascinated me as soon as I learned in first languages survey course (also covered LISP, ALGOL, others) in 1971. In the mid 1980s, when we (IBM AIX people) wanted to move our PL.8 code to C, I created a PL.8 to C translator in Griswold's Icon successor to SNOBOL, then an ISC colleague took it over and enhanced it so that I could focus on my other responsibilities. I'm told the enhanced version was used quite a bit, but I don't really know. Charlie -- voice: +1.512.784.7526 e-mail: sauer@technologists.com fax: +1.512.346.5240 Web: https://technologists.com/sauer/ Facebook/Google/LinkedIn/Twitter: CharlesHSauer