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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: The making of compilers
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:46:34 GMT
Date: 2002-02-27T17:46:34+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C7D1B7A.5A17002E@boeing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9ff447f2.0202261716.33ea286f@posting.google.com

Adrian Hoe wrote:
> 
> dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote in message news:<5ee5b646.0202250655.6fd2bfb8@posting.google.com>...
> > Yes, that's indeed the most reasonable approach if there are no
> > existing compilers for the language. For example, Alsys Ada was
> > initially implemented using a subset compiler written in PL/1.

My recollection of a talk by Ichbiah (at the time) was that they wrote
the Alsys compiler in Ada 83 and wrote a program (presumably in PL/1) to
translate Ada 83 to PL/1. Once the executable worked well enough, of
course, they stopped using the translator and just compiled the compiler
with the compiler.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter
Beard, but no glasses since LASIK (except reading glasses)



  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-27 17:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-24 23:45 The making of compilers tony gair
2002-02-25 12:53 ` Marc A. Criley
2002-02-25 14:55 ` Robert Dewar
2002-02-27  1:16   ` Adrian Hoe
2002-02-27 17:46     ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2002-03-01  5:00       ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-01 17:33         ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-03-01 19:03           ` Florian Weimer
2002-02-26  1:05 ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-26  2:22   ` GVD for Mac OS X? Michael Card
2002-02-26  4:52     ` jim
2002-02-26 15:16   ` The making of compilers tony gair
2002-02-26 15:33     ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-28 22:09     ` Nick Roberts
2002-02-28 22:14       ` Pat Rogers
2002-03-01  5:02     ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-01  8:25       ` tony gair
2002-03-01  2:58 ` Keith Thompson
2002-03-01  5:35   ` OT, was " tmoran
2002-03-01 19:35   ` Robert Dewar
2002-03-01 21:15     ` Keith Thompson
2002-03-02  0:50     ` John H. Lindsay
2002-03-02  1:13     ` Adrian Hoe
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