From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] APL
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:14:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210223081401.GA2231@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw7k5j=-adGU0N5n3fGW1YEF17OmDyAMmWBob81F_3CByrTuQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 09:44:54PM +0000, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> I'm fairly sure Thompson wrote it on sabbatical in Berkeley. I think he
> also wrote the first version of a Pascal compiler.
> Pascal isn't a difficult language but I remember that compiler having an
> unusual style. I think others reworked it significantly later,
> so if it's there at all it's worth looking at the earliest possible one.
>
The Pascal compiler rings a bell... It would be fun indeed to derived a
version from it so that, finally, TeX and al. could be "natively"
compiled instead of converting the (pseudo) Pascal to C (this is web2c
purpose or, as I have named it, pp2rc---Pseudo Pascal to Raw C).
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-21 22:31 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-21 23:01 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-21 23:19 ` Kurt H Maier
2021-02-22 1:24 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 16:53 ` jas
2021-02-22 17:46 ` arnold
2021-02-22 18:28 ` tlaronde
2021-02-22 20:35 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-22 21:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-23 8:14 ` tlaronde [this message]
2021-02-23 8:58 ` arnold
2021-02-23 9:20 ` tlaronde
2021-02-23 9:57 ` arnold
2021-02-23 10:09 ` tlaronde
2021-02-23 7:57 ` tlaronde
2021-02-22 22:01 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 22:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-22 23:09 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-22 23:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2021-02-23 0:13 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-23 0:03 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-23 0:47 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-23 4:41 ` ori
2021-02-23 5:11 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
2021-02-23 5:16 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-24 13:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-08 22:11 ` Jerome Ibanes
2021-02-24 0:33 Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
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