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From: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: OOD applied to interpreters and compilers
Summary: hit 'n'
Message-ID: <5226@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 89 20:56:31 GMT
References: <15231@super.ORG>
Reply-To: nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock)
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Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol
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In article <15231@super.ORG> schrader@metropolis.UUCP (Jennifer A. Schrader) writes:
[ ... ]
>I managed to write an LW(3,498) concurrent parser-generator with 
>default reductions, equivalent state-merging and sub-differentiation with
>seven yak-and-poker retrieval and an alternate compliler-optimizer 
>with a small coffee-maker in just under three minutes in True
>Basic.  And it worked the first time.

Yeah, I once did something similar, but in Vax microcode.  The hard part was
typing it in hex...

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