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tony gair wrote:
> When I heard this method I was fascinated by the elegance of it.
 > I was also very interested to hear the responses of M Criley and
 > 99% of R Dewar's who both gave interesting examples of constructing
 > their own compilers

Dewar was also involved in creating Realia COBOL,
which was also written in itself.