22 Jun
2026
22 Jun
'26
11:15 a.m.
On Jun 22, 2026, at 2:03 PM, Van Snyder via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2026-06-22 at 09:35 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Wow. I've never heard of that, or seen it done. And I would certainly never have
considered doing so myself.
Then again, one of my DEC colleagues wrote a parser in COBOL, but that was more a
"watch this -- hold my beer" type of thing.
paul
Did anyone use FORTRAN? I do remember IBM wrote
the OS/360 FORTRAN
(H) compiler in FORTRAN.
About forty years ago, FORTRAN was called "the universal assembly
language." People who invented new languages generated Fortran code
because it's easier than generating machine code, and your new language
would instantly run on every machine that had a Fortran compiler.