>So, Yacc, Bison, Prolog and some parts of List are simply a different way
>of thinking, that solves certain kinds of problems very efficiently (among
>them mail routing, AI, and recursive descent parsers). You can't expect to
>be able to produce a good Prolog or Bison program because you know C and
>assembly for 10 years.

The compiler was for a procedural language (this was 15 years ago) roughly
a cross between BASIC and C.  Initial version was to be an interpreter,
later to assembly source.  I did them reverse, because it was easier for me
to think that way.

This was a senior-level class.  We had already learned LISP, Prolog, and a
host of other languages at this point, and were each using 3+ operating
systems regularly (VMS, Unix (on an LSI box), OS/JCL for IBM 380(?), DOS,
and Apple DOS, TRS-DOS were the big ones).

Andy

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Andy Kunz - Statistical Research, Inc. - Westfield, New Jersey USA
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