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Re: 40 year old compilers

From Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c, comp.compilers
Subject Re: 40 year old compilers
Date 2013-06-06 17:32 +0000
Organization Compilers Central
Message-ID <13-06-010@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References <13-06-004@comp.compilers> <13-06-006@comp.compilers>

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On Wed, 2013-06-05, Anton Ertl wrote:
> glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
>>So, I wonder (cross post replies) about favorite 40 year old compiler
>>books, especially if written using C-like languages
>
> I like [wulf+75]; however, that's mostly about optimizing, and I don't
> think that C compilers of that time had serious ambitions in that
> direction.
>
> Given that C compilers from 1973 came from Bell Labs, and Al Aho
> worked at Bell Labs, the books he coauthored around that time might
> fit the bill.

There's also the CSTR series of technical reports from Bell Labs itself:

  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html
  http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/bib

A lot of them relate to compilers (but not all are available online,
not from Bell Labs anyway).

/Jorgen

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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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