On Friday, 30 July 2021 at 22:51:00 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 7/30/21 3:08 PM, Brian Tiffin wrote:
> Don't take to C++, never have, even while watching
> cfront and Walter having the first** brain to craft a native
compiler.
[...]
> ** I'm not sure Walter was first first, or close first, or...
He wrote the first C++ compiler. (cfront was a C++-to-C
transpiler.) I hope I am relaying correctly: Walter claims that
without his compiler that made C++ accessible to the public,
C++ might have remained in research organizations.
Ali
Thanks, Ali.
Yeah, early C++ was C, watched it evolve. Programming in Forth,
C, Icon during those years. Found, find, C++ too hot for most to
handle, so why?
And yes, I'd agree that Walter's native C++ compiler was the big
ticket item, in C++ evolution.
And a deeper thanks, Ali, for the book.
Just in case you ever want to try Unicon programming, or need to
glue to some COBOL data, I put these on offer, umm, meaning free.
- Unicon Programming <https://unicon.sourceforge.io/up/>
- GnuCOBOL FAQ <https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/faq/index.html>
Hoping those might let me return the favour for your D book. Nice
work. ;-)
Have good.
