Re: [Axiom-developer] bootstrap Meta/Boot

[Bill Page]

On 8/10/07, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > address@hidden writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > | Writing Boot to generate Lisp is like writing Fortran to generate Aldor.
> > | If you are a Fortran programmer you won't see why that's a problem.
> > | If you are an Aldor programmer you can't imagine why that isn't a problem.
> > |
> > | But you can't make Fortran programmers into Aldor programmers.
>
> ...
> If you want to have fun sometime, dig up Chuck Moore's papers on how he
> created Forth. It was a merging of Burroughs Algol, Fortran and IBM 1130
> machine language. About the only programming languages that *aren't*
> descendants of Fortran are Lisp, COBOL and APL.
>

The first Lisp I ever used was written in Fortran and ran on a PDP 11. :-)

Regards,
Bill Page