Since not all of us were around in the sixties, I thought it might be
useful to point out that Ray Dunn was the person who really got POP-2
(complete with incremental compiler) to the state of being a tool that
worked well enough to support the work of one of the leading AI research
groups in the world. Of course, a systematic approach to portability
only arrived with Poplog, although some initial work was done by Rod
Burstall and Bill Scherliss, who implemented a POP-in-POP.
An interesting question - what is the history of incremental compilation?
We were not aware that it was done anywhere else at the time.
Robin.
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