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- 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>
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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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.)
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- 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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