[COFF] Re: Of PL/I

["Charles H Sauer (he/him)" <sauer@technologists.com>]

On 4/7/2024 6:10 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2024, Charles H Sauer (he/him) wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> I wrote a Fortran to PL/I crude translator in SNOBOL [...]
> 
> Gadzooks...  For our "write a simple compiler" assignment I threatened to
> use SNOBOL, but my lecturer (Ken Robinson) threatened to fail me :-)
> 
> -- Dave

SNOBOL fascinated me as soon as I learned in first languages survey 
course (also covered LISP, ALGOL, others) in 1971.

In the mid 1980s, when we (IBM AIX people) wanted to move our PL.8 code 
to C, I created a PL.8 to C translator in Griswold's Icon successor to 
SNOBOL, then an ISC colleague took it over and enhanced it so that I 
could focus on my other responsibilities. I'm told the enhanced version 
was used quite a bit, but I don't really know.

Charlie

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