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From: holliday@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Glenn Holliday)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: time to write a compiler
Summary: Anecdotal data
Keywords: Cobol, compiler
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Date: 6 Nov 90 01:12:07 GMT
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An a truly wierd data point, after completing a design for a graphics - to -
database compiler, the funding org forced us to do the coding in
Cobol.  Yes, it _is_ possible to write a compiler in any language, but
it took us more than a year to get it up and running in Cobol.

Glenn Holliday  holliday@csgrad.cs.vt.edu
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