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| From | Bruce Mardle <marblypup@yahoo.co.uk> |
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| Subject | Re: Compiler implementation language preference ? |
| Date | Wed, 23 May 2018 07:33:14 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:39:07 UTC+1, Michael Justice wrote: > Is there any preference to writing a compiler in say c instead of say > java, fortran, basic etc? I ask cause i see many of the projects using > either c or c++ instead of other programming languages. > [Mostly people use what they're used to, or in languages that are easy > to bootstrap on the machines they want to use. IBM's Fortran H > compiler was famously written in itself, but I wouldn't write a new > compiler in Fortran because it doesn't have great data structuring or > dynamic storage management. (Yes, I know that Fortran 2008 is a lot > different from Fortran 66.) -John] Per John's remark, the last translator I wrote (a Z280 cross-assembler) was in C (and bison) principally because that's what I usually write in! In the early '80s I wrote 2 translatory things in ZX Spectrum Basic. (The Speccy was the only computer I had access to.) About 1,000 lines each. Later, I translated 1 in Mallard Basic and the other into Turbo Pascal, both on an Amstrad PCW. The translation from Spectrum Basic to Mallard Basic was a lot harder than the translation to Pascal, which may explain my dim view of Basic! I bet some of my old (later) Spectrum C programs would still compile... though I'd probably have to turn off lots of warnings! I've learnt a few new programming languages in the past 17 years but, in my dotage, I've mostly forgotten them again :-/
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Re: Compiler implementation language preference ? Bruce Mardle <marblypup@yahoo.co.uk> - 2018-05-23 07:33 -0700
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