Re: "The C compiler is Written in C" What!

"Glen Herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
4 Aug 2003 00:06:06 -0400

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From: "Glen Herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 4 Aug 2003 00:06:06 -0400
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Posted-Date: 04 Aug 2003 00:06:05 EDT

"Paul Robinson" <postmaster@paul.washington.dc.us> wrote in message


(snip)


> Legend has it that Microsoft originally wrote a FORTRAN Compiler using
> Pascal. Apparently that was a one-time thing, my understanding is
> only C is used for creating compilers there now.


I believe the early MS Fortran compiler was a Fortran front end for
the Pascal compiler back end. It was multiple passes which were run
as separate programs. The programs were something like FOR1, PAS2,
PAS3.


-- glen


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