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| Has anyone hand-written a scanner/parser module? tuxisthebirdforme@gmail.com (tuxisthebirdforme@gmail.com) (2008-11-15) |
| Re: Has anyone hand-written a scanner/parser module? charlesb.cca@mpowercom.net (Charles E. Bortle, Jr.) (2008-11-24) |
| Pilot compilers Was: Re: Has anyone hand-written a scanner/parser modu cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com (Chris F Clark) (2008-11-28) |
| From: | Chris F Clark <cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:59:11 -0500 |
| Organization: | The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA |
| References: | 08-11-061 08-11-118 |
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| Posted-Date: | 28 Nov 2008 14:40:56 EST |
Ah, Pilot. That was my first "compiler" writing experience. The long
defunct PCC newpaper distributed to various schools (including my HS)
carried an interpreter for a dialect called Pilot-72, which I
re-implemented in the Univac variant of BASIC available to me and then
started extending.
The key goal I had in mind was the ability to keep the program and
data in external files and thus not be limited to the computer memory,
as I had written a Monopoly program that exceeded the capacity of the
BASIC compiler. However, rewriting in pilot and using the interpreter
I was not limited on program size.
There was a lot of good in pilot, especially the "match" command,
which was kind of a poor imitation of Snobol--and I did not know
Snobol at that time, just BASIC and a smattering of FORTRAN IV.
Fun reminiscing....
-Chris
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