Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!princeton!njin!rutgers!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!nascom!pb From: pb@nascom.UUCP (Peter Bergh) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Software Distribution Message-ID: <121@nascom.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 88 13:35:42 GMT References: <5655@june.cs.washington.edu> <340@istop.ist.CO.UK> <15440@ames.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: uucp@super.ORG Reply-To: pb@nascom.UUCP (Peter Bergh) Organization: National Advanced Systems, Atlanta, Ga. Lines: 9 To contribute further to ethe existence proffof, Sperry (now part of Unisys) have develoipped a set of compilers that (when I last was involved) comprised C, cCobol, Fortran (for two architectures), Padscal, and Plus (a Sperry systems-programming language) for the Sperruy Univadcc 1100 series and that used a reasonably prtortable intermediate language. The main design goal for the intermediate language, though, was not to make it portable between machine architectures but to make it handle a large subset of the currently existing languages (it handles PL/I but not all of Ada).