On 09/21/2015 04:58 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 9/21/15 2:33 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:

PASCAL was first implemented in FORTRAN.


Was there something before
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/eth/pascal/ETH_Pascal_Listing_Nov72.pdf ?

looks like 6600 assembler to me

It's COMPASS all right, but a quick scan through it shows that it's more likely a run-time package, rather than a compiler. Most interesting is the brief PP profiling program at the end.

--Chuck

FWIW, at about the same time this was being written, SYMPL was being floated to the SCOPE 3.4 people. I recall some discussion about SYMPL including some elements of the then-nascent Pascal. To the best of my knowledge, it didn't happen.

One wonders if Wirth ever considered coding the compiler in SYMPL...



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