Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: "Robin Vowels" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Languages from the 1950s Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 13:05:04 +1100 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 20 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <20-04-005@comp.compilers> References: <20-03-030@comp.compilers> <20-04-001@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="24150"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: history Posted-Date: 02 Apr 2020 08:56:06 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2508 From: 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.