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Meta II a syntax-oriented compiler writing language (1964)
- nickpsecurity 1y agoPrevious submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039981 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039981
- wduquette 1y agoYacc-ety Yacc.
- pjmlp 1y agoA decade before yacc was even an idea, or the events that eventually made UNIX. A fine example of systems programming, e.g. compiler writing, in high level languages, before the myth of C making it all possible.
- wduquette 1y agoI wasn't disparaging Meta II; just noting that it was evidently the first precursor of something we all take for granted. And also, I'd just happened to hear the old rock'n'roll song Yakety-Yak.