[TUHS] History of m6?

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Wed Nov 13 01:07:19 AEST 2019


On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 8:27 PM Steve Johnson <scj at yaccman.com> wrote:

>  I recall that someone wrote a Lisp compiler entirely in macros, and it
> would regularly recurse several hundred levels deep while generating code.
>
T'was before my time, but the legend has it that the original BLISS-10
bootstrap compiler was a set of TECO macros that Chuck Geschke (Adobe's
founder) wrote.
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