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Algol W into Gnu C. (I didn't want to discover it was impossible at
the last moment!)
I have translated most of the Algol W manuals from a partially OCRed
-photostat[4] into LaTex
, but I've decided to stop until I can get
+photostat[4] into [LaTeX]
, but I've decided to stop until I can get
permission to republish it[3]. I was thinking of writing the compiler
in literate style[8], as a series of annotations and appendices to the
reference document, but now I'm not so sure - it would be copyright
trouble if I wanted to release the compiler under GPL.
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; Parse tree : The part where ''malloc''s fly all over the place and the ''free''s struggle to keep up.
; Type analyzer : I intend this thing to be a compiler rather that a translator, so no errors should crop up the C compilation stage.
; C code emitter : Translating the parse tree to Gnu C code. The translation scheme needs to be well documented because programmers can include inline C blocks in Algol W code. They will need to know how the surrounding compiler-generated C code is constructed.
; Algol W standard library (a.k.a. the prelude) : This can be written in mixed C and Algol code. I'd like to do two versions of this: one using native data types; one using IBM 360 types (EBCDIC characters and a different floating-point representation) so old numeric programs give exactly the expected results, and images of old data card decks can be read.
-; Algol W manual : Find and author and ask permission to republish. I assume they're all still alive. Somewhere. (Meanwhile: does anyone know how to get pretty tables out of LaTex
?)
+; Algol W manual : Find and author and ask permission to republish. I assume they're all still alive. Somewhere. (Meanwhile: does anyone know how to get pretty tables out of [LaTeX]
?)
; Manual and man pages : Of course.
