23 Sep
2015
23 Sep
'15
4:57 p.m.
On 09/23/2015 04:29 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Shades of SIL for SNOBOL and also STAGE2.
The first time I did this was for translating COBOL to a special-purpose
dialect. Not a simple lexical task--it was a full-blown two-pass affair.
The initial test versions of the thing were very, very slow. Once the
native-code version was rolled out, it was very, very fast. Development
time was pretty fast.
--Chuck