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Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
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> It was the full SETL version. I don't argue that it was interpreted. I 
> just mean that a "compiler" is any tool that processes a programming 
> language (which term would you use instead?).

That's a pretty broad definition. It covers pretty printers and 
AdaSubst, for example.

I don't have a term for any tool that processes a programming language.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Go and boil your bottoms."
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