🚀 go-pugleaf

|> crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
|> : In article <1992Nov11.124610.22046@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, jna10@cl.cam.ac.uk (J.N. Abley) writes:
|> : > And while I'm here, has anyone ported a modula 2/3 compiler to the Arc?
|> : 
|> : I believe a standalone Modula-2 compiler for the Arc exists - it has certainly
|> : been mentioned since the days of Arthur, and the old APCS!
I heard, from a man who had been there at the time, that Acorn wrote a compiler for a subset (_very_ sub...)
of Modula2, which they used for, amongst other things, developing the pc emulator in its original form. Then
they threw it away, basically, having left tantalising hints about the possibility of its existence around
to tempt us all.  Ah well, maybe Gnu will implement it for us, and we can just port it across; maybe someone
wants to hack the SRC version so that it produces the intermediate code that gcc uses as its output, so it
can be chained into the last half of the gnu compilers? It'd be nice...
Rich!
 (disclaimer: almost everything above is a lie)