Date   : Mon, 07 Oct 1985 15:02:56 PDT (Mon)
From   : Michal Young <young@UCI-ICSC.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Looking for WATFOR compiler

WATFOR was NOT first implemented on the SuperPET. It's immediate successor,
WATFIV, is mentioned in the 1979 edition of the dragon book (Aho and
Ullman), so WATFOR was around a long time before SuperPET. The version I am
aware of was available on IBM mainframes and was not an interpreter;  it was
a very fast compiler optimized for handling multiple compiles submitted in a
batch.  It was specially designed for student use, concentrating on quick
compile and good error checking rather than optimized object code.  

--Michal Young, young@uci