Re: another C-like language? was Compilers :)

Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk>
Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:01:00 +0000

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From: Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:01:00 +0000
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On 15/01/2023 12:21, marb...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> [...] I gather it took 6 years to write the first
> complete A68 compiler! Well, strictly speaking, they'd revised A68 by
> then, so it was an A68R compiler.


A68-R was announced in July 1970, so much less than 6 years
from the A68 Report [December 1968]. It wasn't entirely a complete
compiler, having a few changes primarily to permit single-pass
compilation [but also, eg, "CODE ... EDOC" brackets for embedded
machine code]. Nothing to do with the Revised Report, which was
several years later, and incorporated the experience of A68-R. It
also took much less than 6 years from the publication of the RR to
the first compilers.


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