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by epoch1970 3884 days ago
Walter has been around a long time. He knows the game. Walter, have you ever used PL/I?
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Nope. But Pascal was so simple that a listing for a working subset compiler for it (written in BASIC) was published in BYTE magazine back in the 70s.

But I (and many other compiler devs) thought back in the early 80's that Ada was so complex it was unimplementable. Today that thought seems charmingly naive.

I have spent quite some time in D forums....

EDIT: typo, time was missing