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| From: | arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:48:03 -0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | A noiseless patient Spider |
| References: | 19-02-002 19-02-006 19-02-008 19-02-012 |
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| Keywords: | history, Fortran, tools |
| Posted-Date: | 20 Feb 2019 14:59:13 EST |
In article 19-02-012,
Our esteemed moderator wrote:
>[As I recall, Ratfor was bootstrapped using primitive versions of
>itself. That used to be pretty common. -John]
The first ratfor was done in C using yacc and maybe lex. I suspect
that that was then used to write the ratfor-in-ratfor presented in
"Software Tools".
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Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com
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