I'm fairly sure Thompson wrote it on sabbatical in Berkeley. I think he
also wrote the first version of a Pascal compiler.
Pascal isn't a difficult language but I remember that compiler having an
unusual style. I think others reworked it significantly later,
so if it's there at all it's worth looking at the earliest possible one.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 8:37 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <
lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:

> tlaronde@polynum.com writes:
>
> > There are various versions of an APL interpreter and, amongst these,
> > a version by Ken Thompson, Ross Harvey, Douglas Lanam.
> >
> > Is that this one you are looking for?
> 
> That sounds like the one.  It's entirely possible the version I
> started with came from one of the BSD tapes (we were source
> licensed so we had the full set of tapes from V6 onwards).
> 
> I have the CSRG CD set, but it's in a box in a storage locker
> right now.  Is there any chance you could pull the above APL
> source files and leave them someplace I could grab them from?
> (9p.io would work fine.)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --lyndon

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