| PIZZA | Current compiler version: 0.39d |
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Martin received the doctorate in computer science from E.T.H. Zurich under the direction of Niklaus Wirth, well-known for his contributions to languages and compilers such as Pascal and Oberon. Martin worked at IBM Research in Hawthorne, New York, and Yale University, Connecticut, before joining the faculty of the University of Karlsruhe. While in Germany, Martin lead a team of researchers investigating a broad range of programming language issues. Martin is now an associate professor in the School of Computer and Information Science of the University of South Australia, and leads the Software Engineering Group.
Philip received the doctorate in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in
Pittsburg. Philip pursued postdoctoral work at Oxford University, England, and Chalmers Technical University,
Sweden, before joining the faculty of the Computing Science Department of
the University of Glasgow,
Scotland, and their well-known Functional Programming group.
Philip has recently relocated to New Jersey, where he is a member of
the UNIX and SML groups of the Computing Sciences Research
Center at Lucent
Technologies.
Compiler construction
The Pizza compiler is a development of the EspressoGrinder
project, whose work included one of the first available compilers for the Java
language. Early versions of the Pizza compiler were in fact written
as an extension of the EspressoGrinder, although the Pizza compiler is
now itself written in Pizza (much to the benefit of anyone trying to
read the source!).
The main author of the compiler is Martin Odersky, with Philip
Wadler.
Libraries and other code
Libraries are currently under development by Christian Kemper, Hendrik Lock, John Maraist, Martin Wehr and others.
Suggestions - and even better, contributions - for the Pizza library
are welcome.
Distribution and hype
John Maraist built both the original website in November 1996, the
version 1.1 release site in May 1997 and the frame-destroying revision
in October 1997, and maintains both it and the mailing lists most of
the time; during the months of December '96 through January '97,
Christian, Hendrik, Martin and Martin shared the propaganda portfolio
while John relocated to Adelaide.