Re: History and evolution of compilers

>>The moderator wrote:
>>> Fortran IV did get two compilers on the 360 series, Fortran G which was
>>> fast and generated rotten code, and Fortran H which produced very good
>>> code. -John]
>>
>>As I recall, the Fortran G code wasn't "rotten"; in most cases it was
>>acceptable (maybe you're thinking about the WATFOR/WATFIV compilers).
>>Wirth's Algol-W compiler produced code of about Fortran G's quality;
>>and it ran as fast as the WATFIV compiler.
..snip


Fortran G was written by another company (I've forgotten the name) in
the POP language, for IBM. There was a technology transfer from that
company to several existing (or merged/absorbed) companies, sometimes
by people leaving the original company and founding their own company.


Should you be able to locate/identify those people, your history will
have solid lines (this came from there) as opposed to dashed lines (the
concepts used here may have been based on concepts first used there).


Good luck
Dick W
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