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Article #1908Re: PROTOLO A FUTURISTIC OBJECT-CODE FORMAT
From: Alan L. Pope
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:45
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 18:45
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In article 15335@csi.uottawa.ca, cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne) writes: > >This sounds very much like some languages that already exist: >The basic idea was that they generated compiler front ends (very >similar to the GCC idea described above) that would produce as output >a "machine independent" language. In this case, it was a "stack >oriented" language. (FORTH and PostScript are examples of stack >oriented languages, but have many more op-codes than Tanembaum's >system.) Not that it matters much but Digital Research had a lot of Hype out in the early 1980's (82?) about the Universal Compiler. Basically the same thing. The idea is very much older than even that.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!gatech!swrinde!news.dell.com!texsun!cronkite.Central.Sun.COM!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!appserv.Eng.Sun.COM!skids!alpope From: alpope@skids.Eng.Sun.COM (Alan L. Pope) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: PROTOLO A FUTURISTIC OBJECT-CODE FORMAT Message-ID: <lkouj2INNfkh@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 7 Jan 93 18:45:54 GMT References: <1993Jan6.185513.15335@csi.uottawa.ca> Reply-To: alpope@skids.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: skids