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

[Mark Marlette]

Mike,

Back in 1988 or 2006 it is a good thing to brag about!!!

Mark

At 4/11/2006 07:53 PM, you 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.
>
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