Re: XPL Language

On 4 Aug 2000 21:41:30 -0400, Heinz W. Wiggeshoff <ab528@freenet.carleton.ca>
wrote:


>"Andy Johnson" (andyj@mc.com) writes:
>> "Paul Dineen" <pld@fc.hp.com> wrote in message
>>> Sander Vesik (sander@haldjas.folklore.ee) wrote:
>>>: Peter Flass <flass@leginfo.lbdc.state.ny.us> wrote:
>>>: > A web site has been established for material related to the XPL
>>>: > programming language at:
>>>: > http://www.geocities.com/xpl_lang
>>>
>>>: > XPL, developed in the 1970's was one of the earliest "compiler


>
> My copy of A Compiler Generator, W.M.McK.,J.J.H.,D.B.W. is c/r 1970.
> Quoting from the preface, "The XPL system was developed by the authors
> over a three year period ...", thus making it a child of the 1960's.
>
>>>: > compilers", was widely ported, and was the basis for a number of other
>>>: > languages such as the PL/M family.


I think PL/M and XPL came from different worlds that did not
communicate. I think people saw XPL as too high level. I think PL/M
came from other system level languages such as PL/360 (?). My
recollection may not be right. I think it is amazing that at same
time those system implementation languages were considered great
advances, modern programming languages from BCPL to B to C was being
developed in obscurity. /Steve


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