19 Mar
2019
19 Mar
'19
3:26 p.m.
Since the topic of POP-2 doesn?t come up very often? In the early 1970?s I had a listing
of ?Pop-2 in Pop-2?, a portable compiler written in itself. Over the years I?ve managed to
lose it. Would anyone here have a copy?
John.
On Mar 19, 2019, at 2:52 PM, W2HX via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Amazing! I saw POP and I recognized it. I used to work for Professor Robin Popplestone
while I was at UMASS Amherst working in their "laboratory for perceptual
robotics" around 1988-89. He was quite a character! Died some years ago I heard.
Interestingly, he never attained his PHd. Rumor was the had the whole thesis typed up (on
typewriters in those days) and was going to continue working on editing on a boat. Well
you know what happened next, water 1, thesis 0.
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Don Stalkowski via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 7:14 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: POP-2 silver book
Is there anyone out there who could scan page 261 of
"Programming in POP-2" by Burstall, Collins, and Popplestone
for me?
Also, does anyone have a copy of POP-10?
Thanks, Don