[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Scott Dorsey]

Dennis Boone <drb at ihatespam.msu.edu> wrote:
>The source for the PL/1-F compiler was, iirc, in the MTS distribution,
>and I extracted those files for a bit of light reading a while back.
>Here are the assembler TITLE statements for all the files in that set.
>It's not one phase for every file, but perhaps this will give some
>idea.  A key thing to remember is that this compiler was supposed
>to be "usable" in tens of kilobytes (perhaps not even plural) of
>main storage.

PL/1 was just giant, it was the Ada of its day.  Like Ada, lots of 
systems had only a subset of the full language, and most programmers
only understood a subset of it.  But the full PL/1 compiler was enormous
for the era, pushing the technology and the system resources in almost 
every way.
--scott
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