No Pascal, not a SNOBOL’s chance. Go Forth!

“An interesting feature is Pascal was bootstrapped into existence. A bootstrapped language’s compiler is written in itself, using the smallest subset possible. That compiler is then hand written in another language, probably Fortran for that time frame. Once the hand written compiler works you can feed its executable the compiler code written in the new language. Out comes an executable that will now compile itself. From there you can write the additional features in the language itself. Bootstrapping was a boon for computer science students as it provided them with a working compiler they could extend and hack but was still small enough to comprehend.“

Bron: ‘No Pascal, not a SNOBOL’s chance. Go Forth!‘.

Als wij het bovenstaande goed begrijpen, en snappen waar onze doctorandus mee bezig is, bestaat er binnen afzienbare tijd een vertaalprogramma dat zichzelf kan schrijven, vertalen en compileren. Waarschijnlijk missen we iets, of misschien hebben we te vaak naar Terminatorfilms gekeken.

13-05-2016 14.13 | Door: Stommeling Jones | Categorie: Computerij, Film, Losse skakels, Taal