20 Nov
2012
20 Nov
'12
6:08 p.m.
On 21/11/2012, at 4:49 AM,
What would be the point in doing so?
Well, I don't know. Would it save some time? Why bother with a core language?
For a high level language (and for this purpose, even Fortran 66 counts as "high level") you really don't _want_ a direct translation from source code to object code. You want to eliminate unused code and you want to do all sorts of analyses and improvements. It is *much* easier to do all that to a small core language than to the full source language.