Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Andy Walker Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: another C-like language? was Compilers :) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 22:01:00 +0000 Organization: Not very much Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <23-01-061@comp.compilers> References: <23-01-001@comp.compilers> <23-01-002@comp.compilers> <23-01-003@comp.compilers> <23-01-008@comp.compilers> <23-01-016@comp.compilers> <23-01-029@comp.compilers> <23-01-037@comp.compilers> <23-01-059@comp.compilers> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="24450"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: algol68, history Posted-Date: 15 Jan 2023 21:16:22 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:3329 On 15/01/2023 12:21, marb...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > [...] I gather it took 6 years to write the first > complete A68 compiler! Well, strictly speaking, they'd revised A68 by > then, so it was an A68R compiler. A68-R was announced in July 1970, so much less than 6 years from the A68 Report [December 1968]. It wasn't entirely a complete compiler, having a few changes primarily to permit single-pass compilation [but also, eg, "CODE ... EDOC" brackets for embedded machine code]. Nothing to do with the Revised Report, which was several years later, and incorporated the experience of A68-R. It also took much less than 6 years from the publication of the RR to the first compilers. -- Andy Walker, Nottingham. Andy's music pages: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music Composer of the day: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music/Composers/Byrd