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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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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