Quoting Steve Gray <stevebg@adelphia.net>:
At III for several years we had a DEC-10 based compiler called TRIP, which exceeded in capability and usability all the C compilers then in existence. It was originally designed by Lowell Hawkinson, a LISP expert. I still miss it.
You don't say what it compiled; presumably "C" although your comment implies that it might have been C-like but not following it exactly. Did Lowell write it in LISP, or directly in machine language? He also had one of the many versions of LISP and one of the few that I know of which was capable of handling arrays directly as arrays. But I am not sure that it ever got widely used. The last I knew he was at SDC in California, although I have heard that he later formed a company of his own. - hvm ------------------------------------------------- www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos