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From: drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
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Subject: Re: Best language for implementing compilers?
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:22:32 -0500 (EST)
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 > [If you're thinking of Fortran H, it used some private extensions
 > that provided pointers and structures.  I thought I saw the source
 > code online somewhere but can't find it now. -John]

No, I was thinking of things like Intel's PL/M compiler and the
Software Tools ratfor stuff.

De
[As I recall, Ratfor was bootstrapped using primitive versions of
itself.  That used to be pretty common. -John]