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Subject: Re: pl/0
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Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 21:47:00 EST
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[from Urs Meyer <harvard!seismo!mcnc!unc!meyer>]

Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill

Its amazing to hear something about pl/0 in the U.S.  Niklaus Wirth wrote
a book "Compilerbau" in German (=compiler construction) for teaching
a course on compiler construction at ETH Zuerich, Switzerland.  I feel
the book you mentioned is some English translation of his book and it
covers a stepwise development of pl/0 compiler, a tiny small subset of
Pascal.  I have no knowledge of an existing English translation but
the German edition is from Teubner Stuttgart, Germany, 1977.
    By the way, Wirth wrote a new and revised edition using Modula-2 for
implementing the pl/0-compiler.

    Are you experimenting with pl/0 or do you know if this book is used
as a textbook somewhere?  I would be glad to hear something.

Urs Meyer
(previously student at ETH Zuerich)

[I have seen discussions of PL/0 in English myself, but cannot remember
where.  -John]