Re: beagle compiler

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <1158227419.695380.87170@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> 
>> It was slow, but it was written in Applesoft and then compiled
>> using itself.  How many self-hosted compilers were there for
>> the Apple II?
> 
> I would have thought most of the high level languages were... The
> Pascal compiler in Apple Pascal was self hosting, although because the
> OS itself was a collection of segment procedures one had to know what
> they were doing to replace it.
> 
> Of course, since the P-system was portable, it would have made more
> sense to build the system on a larger computer than an Apple II :-)
> 
> Matt

It was originally built on larger systems.  Apple Pascal might have
been the first UCSD Pascal implementation for a microcomputer.

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