10 Sep
2016
10 Sep
'16
1:59 a.m.
On 9 September 2016 at 17:15, Mary Ann Horton <mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote (in part):
When I was at Berkeley working on my dissertation, I
wrote a tool that would
let you edit a text file written in any language you could define with a
grammar, with syntax and semantic error checking while you edited. I had
grammars for several popular (in 1980) languages.
My curiosity is piqued. What were these languages?
N.
10 Sep
10 Sep
2:01 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 09:59:26PM -0400, Nemo wrote:
On 9 September 2016 at 17:15, Mary Ann Horton
<mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote (in part):
My guess is Pascal and Lisp but that's just a guess. Oh, Fortran for sure.
Cobal maybe?
When I was at Berkeley working on my
dissertation, I wrote a tool that would
let you edit a text file written in any language you could define with a
grammar, with syntax and semantic error checking while you edited. I had
grammars for several popular (in 1980) languages.
My curiosity is piqued. What were these languages? 
4:06 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Larry McVoy wrote:
FORTH? Grammer?
-- Charles
Nemo wrote:
sure.
Mary Ann Horton wrote:
My guess is
Pascal and Lisp but that's just a guess. Oh, Fortran for I had grammars for several popular (in 1980)
languages.
My curiosity is piqued. What were these languages? Cobal maybe?
Forth?
6:40 p.m.
Well, the list is a fuzzy memory, but thanks to a great guy who read in
my magtapes, I was able to go back and UTSL.
Here is the list, minus the various copies and stubs. The definitions
were written in a notation I made up called Language Description
Language (LDL)
* ada.ldl (DOD language for embedded systems)
* asple.ldl (A Simple Programming Language Example, ACM Computing
Surveys 6/76. This was useful for getting the semantic checking
working.)
* c.ldl (no typedef or cpp)
* expr.ldl (a simple expression language)
* ldl.ldl (the Language Description Language itself)
* lisp.ldl
* pascal.ldl
* rigel.ldl (a database language from UCB)
* text.ldl (plain text)
One of these days in My Copious Free Time, I hope to get this beast
"BABEL" running again. It was painfully slow on a Vax, but it might be
OK on today's hardware.
Mary Ann
On 09/09/2016 06:59 PM, Nemo wrote:
On 9 September 2016 at 17:15, Mary Ann Horton
<mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote (in part):
When I was at Berkeley working on my
dissertation, I wrote a tool that would
let you edit a text file written in any language you could define with a
grammar, with syntax and semantic error checking while you edited. I had
grammars for several popular (in 1980) languages.
My curiosity is piqued. What
were these languages?
N.
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