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I'm confused. He starts off by asserting there were only three options; Assembly, Fortran or Algol. But then later on an essential part of the process turns out
by billforsternz 15y ago
I'm confused. He starts off by asserting there were only three options; Assembly, Fortran or Algol. But then later on an essential part of the process turns out to be "a syntax-sugared, low-level language, for which a compiler was available". So why wasn't that apparently anonymous language one of the base options ?
- mayoff 15y agoI think that was the "compiler for a substantial subset of Pascal using Fortran" that they originally planned to translate to Pascal after implementing it in Fortran.
- billforsternz 15y agoOk, thanks, I guess that makes sense.