Re: Best language for implementing compilers?

arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:48:03 -0000 (UTC)

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From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:48:03 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 19-02-002 19-02-006 19-02-008 19-02-012
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Keywords: history, Fortran, tools
Posted-Date: 20 Feb 2019 14:59:13 EST

In article 19-02-012,
Our esteemed moderator wrote:
>[As I recall, Ratfor was bootstrapped using primitive versions of
>itself. That used to be pretty common. -John]


The first ratfor was done in C using yacc and maybe lex. I suspect
that that was then used to write the ratfor-in-ratfor presented in
"Software Tools".
--
Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com



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