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Interesting article on how the original CDC 6000 Pascal compilers were bootstrapped (including the scanned source code listings as PDFs!?!):

http://pascal.hansotten.com/niklaus-wirth/cdc-6000-pascal-co...

"The method used to create the first Pascal compiler, described by U. Ammann in The Zurich Implementation, was to write the compiler in a subset of unrevised Pascal itself, then hand-translate the code to SCALLOP, a CDC specific language. The compiler was then bootstrapped, or compiled using the Pascal source code and the SCALLOP based compiler, to get a working compiler that was written in Pascal itself. Then, the compiler was extended to accept the full unrevised Pascal language."




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