Re: Standardization (of FORTRAN, Ada, ect.)

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From: Eugene Miya
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1988 05:41

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> Comments about standardizing inter-language interfaces.

Far more important is to flood the educational market with cheap
compilation systems.  DEC's common code generation system and some Pascal
implementations using a FORTRAN reserved word were cited.  Far more
important was the availability of a cheap parser to bootstrap later
more portable compilers (the 6400's P1-P4 series of parsers).

Standards tend to be after the fact documents, not blueprints for what should
be (with some notable exceptions).  Good decisions iterated carefully
over time make good final products.

Another gross generalization from

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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: Standardization (of FORTRAN, Ada, ect.)
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Date: 25 Nov 88 05:41:33 GMT
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