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TMG (from transmogrifier) is an early compiler-compiler introduced by Robert McClure in the mid-1960s. Later it was ported and further developed by Doug McIlroy of Bell Labs to work on microcomputers PDP-7 and PDP-11 under the UNIX operating system. McIlroy's dialect of TMG (the Unix TMG) was included into the UNIX operating system from Version 2 to Version 6. It was the first high-level programming language running on UNIX.

TMG was used to implement:

EPL (Early PL/I) on Multics operating system
B programming language by Ken Thompson

TMG influenced:

B (via Unix TMG)
TROL (Translation-Oriented Language) of Donald Knuth
YACC

Running

There are two ways to run Unix TMG on modern computers:

by using a PDP-11 emulator with the original Unix V6 image
by running a modern port of Unix TMG

References

McIlroy, M. D. A Manual for the Tmg Compiler-writing Language (1972) [scanned original]
TMG – Compiler writing language. HOPL: Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages.

Pages in category "TMG"

The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.

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S

Soundex

T

Tokenize a string with escaping

W

Word frequency

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 == References ==
-* McIlroy, M. D. [https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/1972_stuff/tmg.pdf ''A Manual for the Tmg Compiler-writing Language''] (1972) <nowiki>[</nowiki>[https://amakukha.github.io/tmg/TMG_Manual_McIlroy_1972.html HTML version]<nowiki>]</nowiki>
+* McIlroy, M. D. [https://amakukha.github.io/tmg/TMG_Manual_McIlroy_1972.html ''A Manual for the Tmg Compiler-writing Language''] (1972) <nowiki>[</nowiki>[https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/1972_stuff/tmg.pdf scanned original]<nowiki>]</nowiki>
-* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070921161049/http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage.prx?exp=242 ''TMG – Compiler writing language'']. HOPL: Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages. (Archive date September 21, 2007.)
+* [http://hopl.info/showlanguage.prx?exp=242&language=TMG ''TMG – Compiler writing language'']. HOPL: Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages.
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