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Earliest detailed description of a compiler?
From
Derek
@21:1/5 to
All
on Sat Apr 13 12:55:05 2024
All,
What is the earliest detailed description of the
workings of a compiler?
One from 18 April 1958
Internal Translator (IT) A compiler for the 650
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/650/CarnegieInternalTranslator.pdf
There were lots of compilers by 1957, but where is their
internal documentation?
https://shape-of-code.com/2017/05/21/evidence-for-28-possible-compilers-in-1957/
[Good question. Here's a bunch of stuff about FORTRAN, with some
details in the papers and lecture notes. Start with the 1957 WJCC
preprint:
https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/
Chapter 7 of this 1958 FLOW-MATIC manual has some internal description:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/flow-matic/U1518_FLOW-MATIC_Programming_System_1958.pdf
-John]
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