Hi,
On 8/3/10, Frank Heckenbach ih8mj@fjf.gnu.de wrote:
Rugxulo wrote:
Okay, somebody mentioned the Pastel compiler (Pascal-ish, compiled itself) that was the original basis for RMS' hacking. He wrote his own C frontend and that later became GCC proper.
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/History (first Google hit for "Pastel compiler", BTW) says different:
Already read that, which is where I learned about the "wrote own frontend part, used for GCC". Both sound the same to me!
But notice that there is no mention of Amber OS or Jeff Broughton? That's what I meant, it wasn't easy to find out who wrote Pastel or when it was originally written. Surely I can't be the only one interested after all these years??
Somebody should also probably e-mail RMS to ask if he still has a copy of the sources around somewhere (interesting to me, at least, and I'm just vaguely curious!).
This somebody could be you.
Heh, I knew you'd say that. Alright, fine fine, I'll do it.