Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-kth--77ca19-I didn't really know much abou/en

I didn't really know much about optimizing compilers at the time, because I'd never worked on one. But I got my hands on a compiler, that I was told at the time was free. It was a compiler called PASTEL, which the authors say means &ldquo;off-color PASCAL&rdquo;.