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...
