On 09/23/2015 04:29 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:

Shades of SIL for SNOBOL and also STAGE2.

The first time I did this was for translating COBOL to a special-purpose dialect. Not a simple lexical task--it was a full-blown two-pass affair.

The initial test versions of the thing were very, very slow. Once the native-code version was rolled out, it was very, very fast. Development time was pretty fast.

--Chuck




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