Re: Compilers for systems programming (was: A C style compiler)

Dr Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>
> Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:
> > To revert to more on-topic tracks, I wonder if there are other
> > language besides C and cousins (Pascal, Ada, Modula-3, Oberon), whose
> > design/implementation combos were fit for programming systems
> > internals.
>
> Burroughs ESPOL, ESPL, PL/360, PL/516, PL/11, BCPL, IBM's "systems
> programming" dialect of PL/I (PL/S, wasn't it?), Prime Fortran (I kid
> you not), BLISS-10, BLISS-32, BLISS-11, Algol 68/R (I believe), then
> of course there's Lisp, with the Xerox Lisp machines programmed down
> to just above the microcode level in Lisp and the LMI and Symbolics
> machines all the way down to occasional microcode in Lisp, not to
> mention more recent things like Ada 83 and Ada 95.


Prime (make that Pr1me) used a modified Fortran IV dialect, then eventually
moved to PL/P (a PL/I variant with all of the I/O packages stripped out and
adding a STDIO-like library ... complete with printf()!). PL/P's generated
code was quite good ... but since Prime is gone, 'tis all obsolete.


- Craig -


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