From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28641 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2021 00:40:06 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 24 Nov 2021 00:40:06 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C359F94566; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:40:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929B293D29; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:38:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 4731493D29; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:38:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9168293D1B for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:38:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (121-200-11-253.79c80b.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FB7280FD; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:38:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 47EA92635BF; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:38:53 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 11:38:53 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Clem Cole Message-ID: <20211124003853.GD96868@eureka.lemis.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: [COFF] Self-hosting languages (was: Book Recommendation) X-BeenThere: coff@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: COFF , Henry Bent , Mary Ann Horton Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4366082842976765051==" Errors-To: coff-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "COFF" --===============4366082842976765051== Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6Nae48J/T25AfBN4" Content-Disposition: inline --6Nae48J/T25AfBN4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA.php --6Nae48J/T25AfBN4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmGdiZ0ACgkQIubykFB6QiPe8QCghuyU4zlMCrH+pAFWx3FV8sre sCwAnjY186sWF+UqVZh2QfCqLCZOp/jb =XJqZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6Nae48J/T25AfBN4-- --===============4366082842976765051== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX18KQ09GRiBtYWls aW5nIGxpc3QKQ09GRkBtaW5uaWUudHVocy5vcmcKaHR0cHM6Ly9taW5uaWUudHVocy5vcmcvY2dp LWJpbi9tYWlsbWFuL2xpc3RpbmZvL2NvZmYK --===============4366082842976765051==--