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I think Pascal was specifically designed in a way that allowed a compiler to go straight from the source code to machine code in just one pass (although the out

• agumonkey 10y ago
  True, I've read that they made both the syntax easier to parse, and kept the compiler relatively simple to avoid intermediate structures/allocations etc. I took a look at Wirth first Pascal compiler too, it's just too files, of acceptable length, lot of coupling though, but it's easy to guess that it's an imperative style that brings a lot of mechanical sympathy.