[Coco] Ran across an interesting book today...

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 20:53, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 4/7/06 5:51:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

>

>boisy at boisypitre.com writes:

>>Snobol!   I had to write an Algol 60 parser in Snobol 4  for my

>>Programming Languages class last semester.  Talk  about fun!

>

>SNOBOL4 was a terrific language to write parsers in.  I did my PhD 

> thesis on an interactive (text mode) language for describing computer

> systems to  a growing database.  I could be very free in the language

> design, since I  was parsing it in Snobol.

>

>It's a real shame this language was allowed to die out.  The modern

>replacements like Perl just aren't quite as good to use for parsing,

> though they  have other great features.

>

>>In  Compiler Construction this semester, the project is to write a

>>compiler that uses a subset of the ADA programming language and

>>generate intermediate code.  That part is mostly working, and I  am

>>looking forward to writing a back end which will take the  i-code and

>>turn it into good ole' 6809  assembler.

>

>Back in 1988 it would ahve been good to say "there's an ADA compiler

> for  the Coco."  Not that anyone would use it, but it would have made

> a nice  brag. At least Microware had C and Pascal, and ISTR hearing

> of a  Fortran.  Or maybe that was OSK.

>--Mike K.


We also had a forth Mike, but while I think I may have a disk around 
here someplace, I've NDI where it might be.  I recall playing with it 
not too long after I'd rigged up some floppies, say in 85 or so.

-- 
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