[TUHS] TMG and B

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Oct 2 06:23:14 AEST 2014


On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, Doug McIlroy wrote:

> None of this is useful, though, without a PDP-11 binary for tmg-- the 
> usual chicken-and-egg problem with a full-blown compiler written in its 
> own language.

Hmmm...  I haven't used YACC for many years (not since my CompSci days, 
when I was considering a Pascal->C translator for my thesis; I had 
threatened to write it in SNOBOL) so if a suitable rainy day comes along 
(and I can get the manpage etc) I might give it a stab.

-- Dave



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