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Comment by glouwbug

2 days ago

I think OP is just trying to demystify the complexity of compliers for the sake of an educational resource. It's high quality work, compressed to a very small line count

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andai  2 days ago

Well, Python and Pascal were designed as a teaching language, and ended up being remarkably good for actual programming.

  • keyle  2 days ago

    I didn't know this regarding Pascal, do you have any source ref on this?

    • zabzonk  2 days ago

      From wikipedia:

      "Pascal was influenced by the ALGOL W efforts, with the explicit goals of teaching programming in a structured fashion and for the development of system software.[5] A generation of students used Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate courses."

      Its grammar made it relatively easy to write compilers for the language, which could be done as undergraduate exercises. Of course, this did not make it so popular with professional programmers - see http://eprg.org/computerphile/pascal.pdf by Brian Kernighan, although extended Pascals such as Delphi were very productive in the Windows environment.

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