From owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Fri Jul 30 09:37:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA04072 for pups-liszt; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:35:07 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au) Received: from smtp.sw.oz.au (firewall-user@mail.softway.com.au [203.31.96.1]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA04062 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:34:59 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peterc@aurema.com) Received: (from peterc@localhost) by smtp.sw.oz.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id JAA00773 for pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:34:57 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:34:57 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199907292334.JAA00773@smtp.sw.oz.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Peter Chubb To: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Subject: [comp.lang.c,comp.std.c,alt.folklore.computers] A primeval C compiler X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 20.2 Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk I thought this may be of interest to some PUPS readers... ------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: Dennis Ritchie Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c,alt.folklore.computers Subject: A primeval C compiler Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 06:43:22 +0100 Organization: Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Message-ID: <379FE9FA.7D08@bell-labs.com> Reply-To: dmr@bell-labs.com I finally prepared another fossil for museum exhibition: from DECtapes written in 1972-73, there are exhumed C compilers (including source) to show what the very early stages of the language were like. This was a highly transitional stage; for example, the earlier one anticipates a "long" type, but doesn't have struct; the 6-months-later compiler implements struct, but reuses long's slot in the type table. http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/~dmr/primevalC.html Dennis ------- End of forwarded message -------