Re: Mixing compilers

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 17:30

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In article <4382@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>Waitasec...  _Is_ there a prohibition in the pANS that says that one
>can't use a full set of object-libraries, one that provides all of the
>required routines, each with conforming behavior, that were compiled,
>say, with SNOBOL?

The pANS doesn't require that the libraries be compiled at all.  You can
enter them in binary from the front-panel switches (assuming you still
have a machine which has front-panel switches!), so long as they work.
How they come into existence is completely outside the standard.
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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Mixing compilers
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