From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mah@mhorton.net (Mary Ann Horton) Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 11:40:11 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Popular 1980 languages [Was: Comments on "C"] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <01140660-e944-defb-a878-3a12a653dfc9@mhorton.net> Well, the list is a fuzzy memory, but thanks to a great guy who read in my magtapes, I was able to go back and UTSL. Here is the list, minus the various copies and stubs. The definitions were written in a notation I made up called Language Description Language (LDL) * ada.ldl (DOD language for embedded systems) * asple.ldl (A Simple Programming Language Example, ACM Computing Surveys 6/76. This was useful for getting the semantic checking working.) * c.ldl (no typedef or cpp) * expr.ldl (a simple expression language) * ldl.ldl (the Language Description Language itself) * lisp.ldl * pascal.ldl * rigel.ldl (a database language from UCB) * text.ldl (plain text) One of these days in My Copious Free Time, I hope to get this beast "BABEL" running again. It was painfully slow on a Vax, but it might be OK on today's hardware. Mary Ann On 09/09/2016 06:59 PM, Nemo wrote: > On 9 September 2016 at 17:15, Mary Ann Horton wrote (in part): >> When I was at Berkeley working on my dissertation, I wrote a tool that would >> let you edit a text file written in any language you could define with a >> grammar, with syntax and semantic error checking while you edited. I had >> grammars for several popular (in 1980) languages. > My curiosity is piqued. What were these languages? > > N. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: