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From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [pups] Bringing up the fist C compiler
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 09:06:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15735.4259.641449.366341@tfeb.org> (raw)

Is there a description anywhere of how C was originally bootstrapped?
I'm sure it was nothing unconventional, but the question of how you
bring up compilers for other languages which are implemented in their
own language seems to mystify some people to the extent that they
argue that the compiler must be written in C (which is `always
there'), and I thought it would be good to have the real story about C
to tell them.

Thanks

--tim




             reply	other threads:[~2002-09-05  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-05  8:06 Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2002-09-05  8:16 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-05  9:38 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05  9:41   ` Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 10:07     ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 10:15       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-05 11:19       ` Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 12:05         ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 16:11           ` Michael Davidson
2002-09-09 21:17             ` Peter Jeremy
2002-09-05 15:36 Ian King
2002-09-05 17:47 Al Kossow
2002-09-05 23:21 ` Johnny Billquist
2002-09-05 22:54 Carl Lowenstein
2002-09-06  5:35 [pups] bringing " Dennis Ritchie
2002-09-06  8:14 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-06  8:56   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-06 10:28     ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-06 10:52       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2002-09-06 11:06         ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-06  8:28 ` Lars Brinkhoff

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