From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>,
Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>
Subject: [COFF] Self-hosting languages (was: Book Recommendation)
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:38:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211124003853.GD96868@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PY9EGYpJ+4w=9GUpNFo+6oi_yAmy_PiALJ4QZb3XE-Eg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 10:23:47 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> Moving to COFF where this probably belongs because its less UNIX and more
> PL oriented.
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 3:00 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What language were the PL/I compilers written in?
>>
> I don't know about anyone else, but the VAX PL/1 front-end was bought by
> DEC from Freiburghouse (??SP??) in Framingham, MA. It was written in PL/1
> on a Multics system.
I can easily believe that PL/I was written in PL/I. While at Tandem,
I met Don Nelson, apparently an important member of the COBOL world.
He was, of course, responsible for our COBOL compiler (which, again
I'm told, had quite a good reputation). Don told me that he had
written it entirely in COBOL.
Now that's a whole different level of difficulty.
Greg
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2021-11-16 18:54 ` [COFF] Joys of PL/I [Was: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation] Nemo Nusquam
2021-11-16 19:40 ` Charles H Sauer
2021-11-16 20:20 ` Bakul Shah
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2021-11-23 15:23 ` [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation Clem Cole
2021-11-24 0:38 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2021-11-24 1:48 ` [COFF] Self-hosting languages (was: Book Recommendation) Brantley Coile
2021-11-23 19:40 ` [COFF] [TUHS] Book Recommendation Dan Cross
2021-11-24 1:57 ` [COFF] PL/1 [Was: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation] Nemo Nusquam
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