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Meta II a syntax-oriented compiler writing language (1964)

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=800257.808896

by begoon • 1 year ago

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nickpsecurity• 1 year ago

Previous submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039981

wduquette2• 1 year ago

Yacc-ety Yacc.

pjmlp• 1 year ago

A decade before yacc was even an idea, or the events that eventually made UNIX.

A fine example of systems programming, e.g. compiler writing, in high level languages, before the myth of C making it all possible.

wduquette2• 1 year ago

I wasn't disparaging Meta II; just noting that it was evidently the first precursor of something we all take for granted. And also, I'd just happened to hear the old rock'n'roll song Yakety-Yak.

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