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From: medin@noscvax.UUCP (Ted Medin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re: Looking for WATFOR compiler
Message-ID: <52@noscvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 16:04:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 16:04:10 1985
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References: <1980@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: medin@cod.UUCP (Ted medin)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <1980@brl-tgr.ARPA> young@UCI-ICSC.ARPA (Michal Young) writes:
>
>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.  

 I believe you are wrong about the interpreter part. But you are right about
all the rest. It was the best diagnostic compiler/interpreter I have ever
worked with.