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From: daniel@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (The Amazing Daniel Winker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: What If - someone wrote a HP-48SX C compiler?
Message-ID: <8697@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 90 00:26:29 GMT
Organization: Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN
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I've never taken that Scary Sounding undergrad course where you write
a compiler, so I don't know a lot about the mechanics of it.  But, it
seems to me that it should be possible to write a compiler to run on -
say my PC which would compile C source code into HP-48SX machine code.

Could I get some response?  What are the hurdles to overcome in doing
this?  Does this sound reasonable?  Would HP help out with the Machine
Language codes?  Approximately how long would it take a compulsive
programmer working about 10 hours a week at night to learn about
compilers and write the code?  How about writing the compiler in C in
such a way that it could be compiled into HP-48SX machine code and run
on the calculator?

Just some thoughts.