Early History of Euclid?

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From: Jean R. Thomas
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 19:11

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I'm exploring the early history of the Euclid programming
language for a class assignment.  I've found an article in the 1977
SIGPLAN Notices that mentions that the language definition was settled
on that early, but the first compiler apparently didn't appear until
1981.

The SIGPLAN Notices article mentions that (as of 1977) implmentation
was being carried on at the System Development Corporation.  What
exactly happened between 1977 and 1981?  Were they the ones who
produced the first compiler, and if so why did it take so long?

P.S. Please respond by E-mail since I don't usually read this newsgroup.

--Jean Thomas (jrt@cs.arizona.edu)

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