On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:13:20 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

Bob Eager wrote:

Cor, the year after I left school ;-)

Oops, found one for when you were at school!

http://tinyurl.com/22ty8d

A blast from the past... my Internode ltd co-director for wrote a BCPL
compiler many years ago (in basic on an Atari 800). It worked but was
rather slow, so he then re-wrote it in BCPL and used it to compile
itself etc.

IME that's the "normal" way to write compilers.

M.