> Wirth & Co. started the project in FORTRAN, but gave up, particularly > when it was realized that implementing data structures and recursion > in FORTRAN was going to be a bit of a task.
I think that if I wanted to build a Pascal compiler in FORTRAN I would build a p-code engine in FORTRAN and implement the compiler in that. But I don't know if they had the concepts to do that. Not that I think that inventing a p-code engine was beyond them, but it certainly would have raised the bar. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
