Re: Parser generator

From	arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Parser generator
Date	2012-01-11 20:06 +0000
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glen herrmannsfeldt  <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Dennis Boone <drb@msu.edu> wrote:
>One reason that I learned C was that none of the computers I was using
>at the time had PL/I compilers. PL/I was much more fun to write than
>Fortran 66 or even Fortran 77.

Are there PL/I compilers available for modern platforms? E.g. Windows,
Linux 32 and 64 bit Intel, sparc, power pc, etc....  (I see there was
a start at one for GCC.)

Is there a reason to prefer PL/I over C++ or Java?

Just wondering.

Thanks,

Arnold
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Re: Parser generator drb@msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2012-01-08 11:47 -0600
  Re: Parser generator glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-08 21:58 +0000
    Re: Parser generator arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2012-01-11 20:06 +0000
      Re: PL/I, was Parser generator drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2012-01-11 16:19 -0600
      Re: PL/I, was Parser generator Robert AH Prins <robert@prino.org> - 2012-01-11 23:42 +0000
      Re: programming in PL/I compilers@is-not-my.name - 2012-01-12 16:30 +0000
        Re: programming in PL/I Robert AH Prins <robert@prino.org> - 2012-01-14 09:20 +0000
        Re: programming in PL/I "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk> - 2012-01-14 14:08 +0000
          Re: programming in PL/I glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-15 01:01 +0000
            Re: programming in PL/I glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-15 11:36 +0000
    Re: Parser generator for PL/I "robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2012-01-15 02:00 +1100
      Re: Parser generator for PL/I drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2012-01-14 23:40 -0600
  Re: Parser generator SLK Systems <slkpg3@gmail.com> - 2012-01-08 20:26 -0500
    Re: Parser generator glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-11 07:22 +0000
      Re: Parser generator SLK Systems <slkpg3@gmail.com> - 2012-01-11 20:28 -0500

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