Compiler history

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11 Jul 2004 22:17:49 -0400

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From: toba12@freemail.hu (toba)
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Date: 11 Jul 2004 22:17:49 -0400
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Posted-Date: 11 Jul 2004 22:17:49 EDT

Hello list!


On an upcoming exam that I will have, there is a question regarding
the history of compilers. I know that around '63 people were using
operator precendence. They were followed by simple precendence
grammars. And these were replaced by RL analizers (which were followed
by LALR, I guess). But what was before the '60s and after? Can someone
say a few word about it please?


Balit
[Before BNF, parsing was extremely ad-hoc. See Knuth's new Seleted
Papers in Computer Languages for a paper on very early languages and
the seminal papers on both LL and LR parsing. -John]

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