From: gautier_niouzes AT hotmail DOT com (Gautier)
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Subject: Re: (Off-topic) Making a compiler
Date: 17 Jun 2002 12:30:04 -0700
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Nelson Fleet:

> I'm looking for some compiler projects.  Just something to learn a
> little bit about the principles.  Should I be learning about yacc? 
> Bison?  What would be a good direction for someone who just wants to
> catch a clue about what's going on.  Building some kind of rudimentary
> compiler for the experience and exercise.  There's an internet project
> I saw, but it required Turbo Pascal.  I don't know where to get that. 
> I thought there was a dj tool for Pascal.  My Pascal skills have been
> unused for a coupla decades.

You may be interested by the tiny, historical Pascal-S compiler.
I have made an Ada translation so it runs on every Ada compiler
(including the DJGPP "Ez2load" Ada95, aka GNAT/DOS) instead of one
Pascal compiler. See Pascal_S.adb in paqs.zip, URL below

HTH
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