Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!us.feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Fabrice Leal Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: 40 year old compilers Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 8 Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <13-06-018@comp.compilers> References: <13-06-004@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1371777372 39912 64.57.183.58 (21 Jun 2013 01:16:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 01:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: C, history Posted-Date: 20 Jun 2013 21:16:12 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:928 There's this project https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc, that claims to be "the earliest version of the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild written by the late legend himself dmr." > Someone in comp.lang.c is interested in understanding how a 40 years > old C compilers works, but doesn't know much about compilers. > [Seventh edition Unix C compiler description here http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/vol2/ctour.bun ]