Re: Disobeying jet engines - why?



John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:32:12 -0800 (PST), Richard Henry
<pomerado@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 4, 10:57 am, John Larkin
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On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:39:21 +0000, Mike <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:20:33 -0600, "Tim Williams"
<tmoran...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"MooseFET" <kensm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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GCC is written in C.

The FreePascal compiler is written in Pascal.

I'd like to see one written in QBasic. Heh!

At least one was written for the Motorola 6800. I used to work
alongside the bloke who wrote it.

I wrote a couple of Quickpoint (numerical control) compilers in
Basic-Plus. The language facilities were primitive, but in a few
months the machinists had evolved some very sophisticated programming
constructs. I was impressed.

One compiler drive a huge Whitney nc punch. Every hit shook the
building. Whenever I tested new code, I had a few machinists standing
around with fingers on big red buttons. But after that, if ever I
needed a hole drilled or a bracket bent, I got it.

John

IN one of my college courses (Systems Programming?) I had to write an
assembler for a fictional machine in any language available on the
campus time-sharing system. I chose PL-1, written on punch cards and
debugged in 4-inch-thick listings.

Heck, young'un, punched cards were a huge stepup from paper tape!

John

Until you dropped them !

Graham


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