Richard A. O'Keefe writes:
>When I was a student at Edinburgh we had a Pop-2 system (think "Lisp data
>structures (before Lisp had them) with Pascalish syntax") running quite
>happily on a PDP-11. It was *less* resource hungry than the C compiler.
Bill Clocksin wrote that implementation and called it "Poppy".
But, to be fair, the C compiler did not have to be present when the user's
program was run. For developing programs it was, and is, very nice to have
the compiler easily to hand at run-time. But if you want to solve your
PDE's with as fine a mesh-size as possible it was very nice if the compiler
went away if your machine was small. This fact has set the norms for the
world.
Robin