Re: [open-cobol-list] Daydreaming about another language to emit

[Wim Niemans]

As far as I remember correctly, the first release(s) of RyanMcFarland claimed 
to be written in Cobol.
Their first "compiler" was interpretive, like Basic was. I believe such system 
still exists somewhere.


Wim

Op 9 okt. 2013, om 17:10 heeft Dave Stratford het volgende geschreven:

> 
> john Culleton wrote:
> 
>> A long long time ago my Honeywell 110 had two COBOL compilers. One ran
>> in 16k and the other in 8k. The smaller one generated code that
>> consisted entirely of ""call" statements to precompiled machine language
>> functions.
>> 
>> I would like to see a COBOL compiler written entirely in COBOL. Now
>> that would be an accomplishment.
> 
> There was one knocking around a long time ago that I briefly came across.
> I remember nothing about it, not even where I was when I saw it. I may
> even have still been at college. At the time I wasn't as au-fait with
> cobol as I am now, and it was really quite scary.
> 
> ISTR it was written in cobol 68 to compile cobol 68. Maybe. I think!
> 
> Dave
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