Re: History and evolution of compilers

Norman Hilton <norman@kbss.bt.co.uk>
10 Oct 1997 22:03:01 -0400

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From: Norman Hilton <norman@kbss.bt.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Oct 1997 22:03:01 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: Fortran, history

: The moderator wrote:


: [... Incidentally, IBM apparently bought
: Fortran G from someone else, since DEC's PDP-6/10 Fortran compiler used
: the same front end with data structures called "rolls". -John]


There is an article about this in one of the Springer-Verlag books,
"Compiler Construction, an Advanced Course" if my memory serves. It
is mentioned briefly in another book, possibly Saul Rosen's.


I believe several companies used variants on this technique, and have
seen compilers from Ryan McFarland which used it. (Not with my
present employer though.)
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Norm (norman@kbss.bt.co.uk)
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