From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: COFF <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>,
Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>
Subject: Re: [COFF] Self-hosting languages (was: Book Recommendation)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2021 20:48:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F2D8B0DC-ADFB-48D7-AFDC-F520D0A5676D@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211124003853.GD96868@eureka.lemis.com>
Unstring was his friend, I would guess. Nothing in COBOL is recursive.
> On Nov 23, 2021, at 7:38 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 ` [COFF] Self-hosting languages (was: Book Recommendation) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-11-24 1:48 ` Brantley Coile [this message]
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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