PL/I Subset G: Parsing
"I'm working on a compiler and runtime library for PL/I Subset G (henceforth just G). I intend to support the ANSI X3.74-1987 standard with a bare minimum of extensions. Compatibility with other PL/I compilers is not intended. The compiler will be open source; the library will be under the MIT license and will include existing components such as decNumber and #LMDB needed by G."
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/1re3ndx/pli_subset_g_parsing/
I wonder what's up with resurrecting dead programming languages recently. Reminded me of the Algol-68 frontend for gcc that someone else recently posted.
Has anyone done a modern implementation of BCPL yet?
@hyc
Doesn't surprise me, PL/I is the brainchild of a meeting room full of IBM execs who were like "why do we need all these programming languages, let's design one big one that has the features of all the other ones and we can get rid of all these compiler teams"
Of course they then discovered https://xkcd.com/927/ but hey
@martyh
Doesn't surprise me, PL/I is the brainchild of a meeting room full of IBM execs who were like "why do we need all these programming languages, let's design one big one that has the features of all the other ones and we can get rid of all these compiler teams"
Of course they then discovered https://xkcd.com/927/ but hey
@martyh
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