Re: IBM gig? Was : RE: Proposal
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Oct 15, 2001
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Jonas Temple writes: > Which compilers did you work on at Big Blue? After working briefly at a couple of places, I arrived at IBM in Toronto in the mid 80's. IBM had just moved their compiler development to Toronto. (I guess they figured Canadian programmers would be cheaper. ) I worked on a new BASIC compiler and interpreter, then a new C compiler, and later a Cobol compiler. All were developed from scratch. It was for their first RISC CPU (now known as Power PC). I found IBM to be a very stuffy and bureaucratic environment, so eventually I left for a small 15-person company where I developed a special-purpose language called "Fourier" and a compiler for it. We sold Fourier to the Canadian defense department, and also to MIT in the states. Later I worked on an interpreter at Amdahl Canada, then moved to another company, and then landed here at RDS. Regards, Rob Craig Rapid Deployment Software http://www.RapidEuphoria.com