On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:56 -0500, Albert Lai wrote: . . .
one-pass fast method, since for almost a decade no one did it. Most of us had to wait until someone figured it out and then we had Turbo
Judging from comments by U. Ammann [1],[2], part of the original Pascal implementation team at ETH Zurich, the first Pascal compiler for the CDC 6x00 family of computers was written in 1970-1971, and a second was developed from scratch for the same computers but compiling the revised language, was written in 1972-1974. I think both of these compilers were one-pass. -- Bill Wood [1] U. Ammann, "The Zurich Implementation", in D.W. Barron (ed.), _Pascal, The Language and its Implementation_, pp. 63-82, John Wiley and Sons, 1981. [2] U. Ammann, "Code Generation for a Pascal Compiler", in D.W. Barron (ed.), _Pascal, The Language and its Implementation_, pp. 83-124, John Wiley and Sons, 1981.