Re: Languages from the 1950s

From	"Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Languages from the 1950s
Date	2020-04-02 13:05 +1100
Organization	Compilers Central
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From: <gah4@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2020 10:09 AM

> It seems to me that there were a lot of machine specific
> low-level languages, about at the assembly level, before the
> machines were big enough to run compilers.

Even very early machines were capable of running compilers.

The DEUCE (1955), which had a high-speed memory of 384 words
ran ALGOL, ALPHACODE, and GEORGE.

For GEORGE there was both a compiler and an interpreter.
ALPHACODE was a compiler.
OTMH, ALGOL also was a compiler.

DEUCE was the production verion of the pilot ACE, so it would have
been possible to run a compiler on it, though whether any was
I do not know, though both pilot ACE and  DEUCE were operating
concurrently.

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Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-03-30 15:16 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2020-03-31 17:08 +0000
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-03-31 19:27 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s gah4@u.washington.edu - 2020-03-31 16:09 -0700
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-04-02 13:05 +1100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-04-01 21:31 +1100
    Re: Languages from the 1950s "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2020-04-01 17:35 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> - 2020-04-01 17:49 +0200
  Re: Languages from the 1950s rst@panix.com (Robert Thau) - 2020-05-10 00:46 +0000
    Re: Languages from the 1950s Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> - 2020-05-13 10:51 +0100
  Re: Languages from the 1950s "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2020-09-03 21:02 +1000

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