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From: esj@harvee.UUCP (Eric S Johansson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Whatever Happened to the C to Forth Compiler?
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Date: 28 Feb 91 08:01:40 GMT
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In article <23296@well.sf.ca.us> jax@well.sf.ca.us (Jack J. Woehr) writes:
> koopman@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Philip Koopman) writes:
> 
> >The C compiler has existed for a while.  As I understand it,
> >a reasonably usable version (1.1) will be released soon,
> >just before they can the remaining software developer at
> >Harris.
> 
> 	The tragedy is that by releasing this sort of software in the
> public domain they might be able to save the chip (which they've already
> decided to kill anyway). Stallman should send a cupla Da Boys from Da
> Free Software Foundation over ta re-arrange their faces :-)
> 

ooohhh, that RMS is a real *MEAN* one.  scares the willies out of
me everytime I see him in public. :-)

I have had an on again/off again interest in writing a forth front end
for the GCC code generator.  It should be fairly easy except for
words like postpone and evaluate.  But I have solved problems like
this before and I will again (and again and again....ad nausum)

--- eric
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