alt Hacker NewsI made Pascal for 8080 in about a week in 1979. How is it possible you may ask?
Well son, I had Lisp and I just added Pascal translator. Only caveat was that it ignored type declarations and such useless academic shit. Because I had sort-of compiler too, it was not really bad when compared to Turbo-Pascal.
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timonoko • today at 9:02 AM
Erh. What?
Here is my infamous 1976 Nokolisp-compiler at work:
c:\ nokolisp
(comp-debug t)
(ncompile (macroexpand '(+ 1 2 a)))
$36E8:$5CC8: MOV BX,$02
$36E8:$5CCB: MOV AX,$01
$36E8:$5CCE: ADD AX,BX
$36E8:$5CD0: PUSH AX
$36E8:$5CD1: MOV AX,[$0190]
$36E8:$5CD4: CALL $0F1D ; CALL NUMVAL
$36E8:$5CD7: MOV BX,AX
$36E8:$5CD9: POP AX
$36E8:$5CDA: ADD AX,BX
$36E8:$5CDC: CALL $05C9 ; CALL MAKNUM
$36E8:$5CDF: JMP $1DA7
(subru: eval=$5CC8, compile=$3B6F)➕ show 1 reply
I found 50 pages manual for the Noko-Pascal. Finnish Army paid for it, because nothing comparable was available. Writing the manual was 10 times bigger task.
The army used Nokopaskal for testing radio modems. Looks like the language was heavy with low level constructs like PORT.
I truly did not remember any of this until today.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/uibbTgCQmm4XCa9c6