Re: Which comes first, languages or compilers?

"Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:35:50 +0000

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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:35:50 +0000
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 23-10-008 23-10-011 23-10-012
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Keywords: design, history, comment
Posted-Date: 31 Oct 2023 07:06:06 EDT
In-Reply-To: 23-10-012

On 30/10/2023 03:26, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> On 10/27/23 5:57 PM, Luke A. Guest wrote:
>
>> I don't really consider any of Wirth's languages to be designed as
>> they would not have the gaping big holes they have.
>
> The *languages* are all well designed,


That's not what the Oakwood guidelines say.


system *libraries* are incomplete
> or missing.


Yes.
[I'd prefer not to refight 30 year old arguments about language design details here.
At this point Oberon is purely of historical interest and Pascal is close to dead. -John]


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