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| 40 year old compilers gah@ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) (2013-06-03) |
| Re: 40 year old compilers anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (2013-06-05) |
| Re: 40 year old compilers wclodius@earthlink.net (2013-06-05) |
| Re: 40 year old compilers derek@knosof.co.uk (Derek M. Jones) (2013-06-06) |
| Re: 40 year old compilers grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se (Jorgen Grahn) (2013-06-06) |
| Re: 40 year old compilers numerist@aquaporin4.com (Charles Richmond) (2013-06-07) |
| Re: 40 year old compilers ott@mirix.org (Matthias-Christian Ott) (2013-06-10) |
| 40 year old compilers charlesb.cca@mpowercom.net (Charles E. Bortle, Jr.) (2013-06-15) |
| Re: 40 year old compilers fabrice.leal.ch@gmail.com (Fabrice Leal) (2013-06-20) |
| Re: 40 year old compilers janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com (Janis Papanagnou) (2013-06-21) |
| From: | "Derek M. Jones" <derek@knosof.co.uk> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.lang.c,comp.compilers |
| Date: | Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:52:51 +0100 |
| Organization: | virginmedia.com |
| References: | 13-06-004 |
| Keywords: | history |
| Posted-Date: | 06 Jun 2013 08:52:31 EDT |
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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