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From: "Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net>
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:02:42 GMT, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> wrote:

> Ed Falis wrote:
>>  A bootstrap compiler was written in PL/1.  The real compiler was  
>> written  in Ada.  Alsys and Digital compiled each others' compilers as  
>> robustness  tests.
>
> I recall a presentation by Ichbiah in which he stated that the Alsys  
> compiler was written in Ada, but initially compiled by a translation  
> program that translated Ada to PL/1.
>

Actually, that's more accurate than my statement.  A subset of Ada was  
set, translated into PL/1, then compiled.  But the use of this thing was  
about finished when I joined Alsys in '83.  Memory gets fuzzy after a  
while.  ;-)

- Ed