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From: | Dave Stratford |
Subject: | Re: [open-cobol-list] Daydreaming about another language to emit |
Date: | Wed, 9 Oct 2013 16:10:40 +0100 (BST) |
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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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