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From: arnold@freefriends.org (Aharon Robbins)
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Subject: Re: Are there different programming languages that are compiled to the same intermediate language?
Date: 30 Jan 2023 08:03:12 GMT
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Our esteemed moderator writes:

>By the way, f2c is based on f77 which compiled Fortran into the intermediate
>language the PDP-11 C compiler used. -John]

Just to be clear, it was the intermediate language of Johnson's PCC,
which was first targeted at the Interdata, then the PDP-11 and Vax,
not Dennis Ritchie's original PDP-11 compiler.

Arnold
[Good point. I wrote a competing F77 compiler INfort which did use the
Ritchie intermediate language. Someone else later modified it to use
pcc. -John]