From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: gnat310p on NT
Date: 1998/08/16
Date: 1998-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.903281119@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3af579hx6.fsf@fred.muc.de
Andi asks
<<> As I say, the conditions vary. In the case of the Realia COBOL compiler,
> the code generator was a single 35,000 line file. Not because, contrary
> to typical uninformed opinion, COBOL has no nice way of breaking things up
> into multiple files, but because only one person ever worked on this file
> (me) and it took only 20 seconds to compile on a slowish (386 25 MHz) PC
> which was quite acceptable.
You don't want to say with this that the code generator was writen in COBOL?
>>
I am not quite sure of the sense of Andi's question, but yes, the Realia
COBOL compiler is 100% written in COBOL, and so yes of course, the code
generator is written in COBOL.
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1998-08-14 0:00 ` gnat310p on NT David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-08-14 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-15 0:00 ` bob
1998-08-15 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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