Re: Compiler history

smidkiff@purdue.edu (Sam Midkiff)
15 Jul 2004 16:33:54 -0400

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From: smidkiff@purdue.edu (Sam Midkiff)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 15 Jul 2004 16:33:54 -0400
Organization: Insight Broadband
References: 04-07-006
Keywords: history, Fortran
Posted-Date: 15 Jul 2004 16:33:54 EDT

On 11 Jul 2004 22:17:49 -0400, toba12@freemail.hu (toba) wrote:
>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]


The article "The Fortran I compiler", Padua, D., Computing in Science
& Engineering [see also IEEE Computational Science and Engineering]
,Volume: 2 , Issue: 1 , Jan.-Feb. 2000, Pages:70 - 75 has some
discussion of parsing in the original Fortan 1 compiler, and is
generally an interesting article on early compiler technology.




Sam Midkiff

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