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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. > >=20 > > 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). There was an interpreter for P-code and (I think later) a compiler for the Vax. You'd have to port it to current architectures, and compiling TeX would probably make TeX run more slowly than the C version. The Berkeley Pascals were some of the compilers used for "Software Tools in Pascal". 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