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From: ge@sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: time to write a compiler
Keywords: Fortran, question, library
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Date: 7 Nov 90 10:16:44 GMT
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>[When writing my F77 compiler, I found the library, particularly the I/O
>library, to be as much work as the compiler itself. -John]

On the subject of runtime support I'd like to point out a very interesting
article on RTS for a functional language by Andrew Appel, in 

	"A Runtime System"
	Andrew W. Appel
	Lisp and Symbolic Computation, no. 3 1990, pp. 343-380

Especially the size is impressive, < 2000 lines of C+assembler
including garbage collection. I/O is done by writing the library in
the functional language itself (Standard ML).

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