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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Steve Johnson <scj@yaccman.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of m6?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:07:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PjXNN-LTvpfTRvAzoCo-wMbf9tLuNTzs63_7VEGJUD0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d155d03e5177486fb1702add77ed540bebc3515a@webmail.yaccman.com>

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 8:27 PM Steve Johnson <scj@yaccman.com> wrote:

>  I recall that someone wrote a Lisp compiler entirely in macros, and it
> would regularly recurse several hundred levels deep while generating code.
>
T'was before my time, but the legend has it that the original BLISS-10
bootstrap compiler was a set of TECO macros that Chuck Geschke (Adobe's
founder) wrote.
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-12 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-11 21:10 Arnold Robbins
2019-11-11 22:18 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-12 16:01   ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-11-11 22:31 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-11 22:58   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12  0:07     ` Nemo Nusquam
2019-11-12  0:39       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-12  0:30   ` Clem cole
2019-11-16 16:27     ` SPC
2019-11-17  5:30       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-17  5:50         ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-17 18:12           ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-17 18:23             ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-17 18:56               ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-17 22:46             ` Barry Stanly
2019-11-12  0:42   ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-11 22:37 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-11-12  1:09 ` Steve Johnson
2019-11-12 15:07   ` Clem Cole [this message]
2019-11-13  9:16     ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-11-13 12:20       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 12:50         ` Mike Markowski
2019-11-13 13:02           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 16:56         ` Paul Winalski
2019-11-13 19:19           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 19:21             ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-14  9:26         ` Thomas Paulsen
2019-11-14 10:53           ` Lars Brinkhoff
2019-11-13 21:26       ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-13 22:53       ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2019-11-12 15:15 Doug McIlroy
2019-11-13  7:38 ` arnold
2019-11-13 10:55   ` David Arnold

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