It is no joke, I saw the article over ten years ago.

Since posting my original message, I have found a
reference to it, it did not appear in Byte magazine,
but Dr Dobbs Journal instead! Both magazine publish
source code, so I got them mixed up.

The article I was thinking of was written by Edward Mitchell,
and appeared in the January, March, May, and July 1983 issues.

The titles were:

Augusta -- an Ada Subset for Micros, Jan. 1983
Augusta -- 2, the Augusta P-Code Interpreter, Mar. 1983
Augusta -- Part III, Recursive Descent Compilers, May 1983
Augusta -- Part IV, the Augusta Compiler (continued), July 1983

One of the references in the Augusta articles did appear in
Byte magazine, and was about a Pascal compiler written in BASIC

Chung Kin-Man and Yuen H (1978): A "Tiny" Pascal Compiler,
Byte Magazine, Volume 3, Numbers 9, 10, 11, September,
October, November 1978.

Now all I have to do is find these article someplace!

--EE




In article <8dbqi1$ej9$1@wanadoo.fr>,
  "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> e_erpelding@hotmail.com a �crit dans le message
> <8db57c$g94$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
> >I am trying to find the Byte magazine
> >article about an Ada compiler written
> >in BASIC. The article included the source
> >code even! Does anyone know the issue
> >it appeared in? Or, even better, is it on
> >the net somewhere?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
>
> I would say that this is a joke! I've never heard of such compiler
and it
> seems almost impossible to do in BASIC. Well maybe a very restricted
> set of Ada...
>
> Where did your heard of such compiler ?
>
> Pascal.
>
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