Re: Compiler and interpreter origins

Scott Moore <samiam@moorecad.com>
10 Aug 2004 17:34:10 -0400

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From: Scott Moore <samiam@moorecad.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Aug 2004 17:34:10 -0400
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References: 04-07-077 04-08-023 04-08-038
Keywords: history
Posted-Date: 10 Aug 2004 17:34:10 EDT

Nick Maclaren wrote:


> Absolutely NOT! Certainly by the early 1960s, the concept of
> debugging compilers existed, which were expected to have thorough
> diagnostics, insert good checking and compile very fast. What
> happened to that concept, I wonder? :-(


In the 1960s, few compiled languages had features such as open ended
arrays, ability to create a pointer to any variable and similar
features. It was certainly possible to create a compiler that checked
for almost all access violations and range violations. This is no
longer the case. In fact, the trend is away from such checkable code.
Fortran 90 includes the ability to point to arbitrary variables. With
all of its other faults, at least Fortran was checkable.


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