Re: 40 year old compilers

From	"Derek M. Jones" <derek@knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c, comp.compilers
Subject	Re: 40 year old compilers
Date	2013-06-06 12:52 +0100
Organization	virginmedia.com
Message-ID	<13-06-008@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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glen,

> Someone in comp.lang.c is interested in understanding how a 40 years
> old C compilers works, but doesn't know much about compilers.

This begs the question of what is the oldest compiler still in
production use.

Here is a non-C candidate:
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2012/08/31/the-oldest-compiler-still-in-production-use-is/

> Seems to me that one way to learn is to read 40 year old compiler books.

They don't always reflect reality on the ground.

Here is a 30 year old C compiler:
http://www.desmet-c.com/

and of course the grandaddy of them all:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/primevalC.html

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40 year old compilers glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-06-03 00:14 +0000
  Re: 40 year old compilers anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2013-06-05 16:22 +0000
    Re: 40 year old compilers Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2013-06-06 17:32 +0000
  Re: 40 year old compilers wclodius@earthlink.net (William Clodius) - 2013-06-05 21:30 -0600
    Re: 40 year old compilers "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2013-06-07 18:09 -0500
  Re: 40 year old compilers "Derek M. Jones" <derek@knosof.co.uk> - 2013-06-06 12:52 +0100
  Re: 40 year old compilers Matthias-Christian Ott <ott@mirix.org> - 2013-06-10 00:05 +0200
  40 year old compilers "Charles E. Bortle, Jr." <charlesb.cca@mpowercom.net> - 2013-06-15 03:01 -0700
  Re: 40 year old compilers Fabrice Leal <fabrice.leal.ch@gmail.com> - 2013-06-20 04:04 -0700
  Re: 40 year old compilers Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com> - 2013-06-21 17:29 +0200

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