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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Good practical language and OS agnostic text?
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compiler.ddj@h-rd.org wrote:

(snip)
> somwhat old, but good to read: Gries "Compiler Construction for
> digital computers"

I believe it is, more or less, older than C so shouldn't have C
dependencies. Also, the camera ready copy was printed on a 1403
printer, which should look familiar to OS/360 users.

(snip)

> [Gries is a good thought, quite concrete and the
> target machine is a thinly disguised S/360. -John]

Many years ago (about 33), just after my undergrad compiler course,I
had the idea of writing a PL/I compiler for VAX using the Gries book.
As usual, it would have been written in the language it compiled, so
it could compile itself. But I got distracted with other things over
the years.

-- glen