From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The making of compilers
Date: 28 Feb 2002 21:00:21 -0800
Date: 2002-03-01T05:00:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0202282100.59d56dde@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C7D1B7A.5A17002E@boeing.com
Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message news:<3C7D1B7A.5A17002E@boeing.com>...
> 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.
Yes, that's exactly right, and that's what I meant by a
subset compiler written in PL/1 (converting Ada to another
language is one possible way of writing a compiler for
Ada, even today there are Ada 95 compilers that work by
translating to C).
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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
2002-03-01 5:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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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