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- From: pop@cs.umass.edu ( Robin Popplestone )
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
- Subject: Grandmothers and eggs
- Message-ID: <58536@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 13:54:07 GMT
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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- Originator: pop@roo.cs.umass.edu
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- Since not all of us were around in the sixties, I thought it might be
- useful to point out that Ray Dunn was the person who really got POP-2
- (complete with incremental compiler) to the state of being a tool that
- worked well enough to support the work of one of the leading AI research
- groups in the world. Of course, a systematic approach to portability
- only arrived with Poplog, although some initial work was done by Rod
- Burstall and Bill Scherliss, who implemented a POP-in-POP.
-
- An interesting question - what is the history of incremental compilation?
- We were not aware that it was done anywhere else at the time.
-
- Robin.
-