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<xentrac>TeX was originally written in Pascal, sort of. the C version came later

<ekaitz>xentrac: sort of?

<xentrac>and I think you can run current LaTeX on original TeX83

<xentrac>ekaitz: well, it was written in WEB, which is a mixture of TeX and Pascal

<xentrac>with some macro-processing facilities to shore up some of the weaknesses of standard Pascal

<xentrac>like not having strings

<xentrac>so the TANGLE program from WEB extracts the Pascal chunks and macro-processes them and puts them in the order that a Pascal compiler wants them, for example with no references to things that haven't been previously declared

<xentrac>and the WEAVE program from WEB extracts the TeX chunks and formats the Pascal into TeX so that you can typeset it and publish the program as a nice-looking paper book

<xentrac>I'm a little bit unclear on what exactly CWEB takes as input to produce the version of TeX you can compile with a C compiler

<xentrac>I don't even know if it's the original Pascal source, or if it's a version where the Pascal chunks have been replaced with C

<xentrac>but anyway the source code in the printed book entitled "TeX: The Program" is Pascal. sort of.

<aggi>xentrac: i've settled with TeTeX from year 2006, the entire stack including ghostscript, gnuplot etc. passed compilation/static-linking with tinycc

<aggi>i've too had a look at original TeX from Knuth, and found it's build-system incomprehensible

<aggi>maybe Texlive is a better choice, but it's 10fold the size round about

<xentrac>that's fantastic! I don't think of GhostScript and Gnuplot as being part of TeX at all ;-)

<AwesomeAdam54321>xentrac: if I'm not mistaken, texlive uses web2c to convert from WEB to C

<stikonas>oh after a few months I think I've finally understood why my openjdk bootstrap on gentoo was broken... I missed a couple of uabs->g_uabs renamings in my own patch (to fix the build): https://gitlab.com/stikonas/gentoo-bootstrap/-/commit/bef60f356e0650310061c6c919e68f5513282832

<stikonas>for a while I thought it was GCC13 -> GCC15 upgrade that broke things but turns out it was my own bug

<ekaitz>stikonas_: what does "Received ) in primary_expr" mean in M2-Planet?

<stikonas_>I guess unexpected )

<ekaitz>stikonas: maybe for (bla; ble;) is not allowed?

<stikonas>maybe...

<stikonas>not sure now

<stikonas>but the error comes from https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet/blob/master/cc_core.c#L1744

<ekaitz>oh

<ekaitz>hmm

<ekaitz>it was the for

<ekaitz>also i had a for with a comma and it didn't like that

<ekaitz>are gotos ok with M2-Planet?