From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Popular 1980 languages [Was: Comments on "C"]
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 19:01:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160910020122.GU16830@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzzxspQfiTg6ARtZo0HG1Di9C4V49mWu2u5LrqBaPyFRPA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:59:26PM -0400, Nemo wrote:
> On 9 September 2016 at 17:15, Mary Ann Horton <mah at mhorton.net> 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?
My guess is Pascal and Lisp but that's just a guess. Oh, Fortran for sure.
Cobal maybe?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-10 2:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-10 1:59 Nemo
2016-09-10 2:01 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2016-09-10 5:57 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2016-09-10 16:06 ` Charles Anthony
2016-09-10 18:40 ` Mary Ann Horton
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