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

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On 2018-08-01, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org> wrote:
> In article <slrnpm3ts4.qdt.address at is.invalid>, invalid <address at is.invalid> writes:
>> 
>> No, it is not. It's a preprocessor written in PASCAL to add what K&R wanted
>> to FORTRAN.
>> 
>
>    My copy of RATFOR is written in RATFOR and came with it's own FORTRAN
>    IV output of itself as a bootstrap.

That is all well and good but the original RATFOR IIRC was written by K&R in
PASCAL. I don't remember reading that you were not allowed to implement it
in another language ;)