[COFF] Self-hosting languages (was: Book Recommendation)
Brantley Coile
brantley at coraid.com
Wed Nov 24 11:48:00 AEST 2021
Unstring was his friend, I would guess. Nothing in COBOL is recursive.
> On Nov 23, 2021, at 7:38 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 23 November 2021 at 10:23:47 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
>> Moving to COFF where this probably belongs because its less UNIX and more
>> PL oriented.
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 3:00 AM Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> What language were the PL/I compilers written in?
>>>
>> I don't know about anyone else, but the VAX PL/1 front-end was bought by
>> DEC from Freiburghouse (??SP??) in Framingham, MA. It was written in PL/1
>> on a Multics system.
>
> I can easily believe that PL/I was written in PL/I. While at Tandem,
> I met Don Nelson, apparently an important member of the COBOL world.
> He was, of course, responsible for our COBOL compiler (which, again
> I'm told, had quite a good reputation). Don told me that he had
> written it entirely in COBOL.
>
> Now that's a whole different level of difficulty.
>
> Greg
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