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From: young@UCI-ICSC.ARPA (Michal Young)
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Subject: Re: Looking for WATFOR compiler
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Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 08:31:14 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 08:31:14 1985
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WATFOR was NOT first implemented on the SuperPET. It's immediate successor,
WATFIV, is mentioned in the 1979 edition of the dragon book (Aho and
Ullman), so WATFOR was around a long time before SuperPET. The version I am
aware of was available on IBM mainframes and was not an interpreter;  it was
a very fast compiler optimized for handling multiple compiles submitted in a
batch.  It was specially designed for student use, concentrating on quick
compile and good error checking rather than optimized object code.  

--Michal Young, young@uci