Re: History and evolution of compilers

gray@harlequin.co.uk (David N Gray)
17 Oct 1997 22:50:43 -0400

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From: gray@harlequin.co.uk (David N Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 Oct 1997 22:50:43 -0400
Organization: Harlequin Inc, Menlo Park, CA, USA
References: 97-09-130 97-10-008 97-10-017 97-10-033 97-10-049 97-10-069
Keywords: Fortran, history

rweaver@ix.netcom.com (Richard Weaver ) writes:
> 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.


I don't know about Fortran G, but if I remember right, "Digitech" was
the name of the company that originally wrote compilers in POPS.
(Programmed OPeratorS). The successor company was Ryan-McFarland (Don
Ryan and Dave McFarland, again if I remember correctly).
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