From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] BTL summer employees
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 06:33:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wr1sf2ene.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202008021340.072Demtg086822@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (Doug McIlroy's message of "Sun, 02 Aug 2020 09:40:48 -0400")
Not a summer employee, but an MIT undergrad intern for most of a year,
Alan Snyder was involved with the transition from B to C, suggested the
use of a preprocessor, and the && and || operators. He brought Yacc and
C with him back to MIT and the Dynamic Modeling PDP-10. He wrote a
retargetable C compiler and a host of Unix utilities for ITS. This
confused the rest of the users, who couldn't make sense of the terminal
after AS has logged off. The C language enjoyed a rather modest success
on the ITS operating system; for example the "R" typesetting program and
the Dover printer spooler was written using Snyder's C compiler.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-10 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-02 13:40 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-02 13:57 ` arnold
2020-08-02 17:13 ` Doug McIlroy
2020-08-03 9:24 ` arnold
2020-08-02 15:12 ` Robert Diamond
2020-08-02 19:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-03 5:14 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-08-03 12:55 ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-03 16:26 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-10 0:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10 0:53 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-10 6:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2020-08-10 12:53 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-10 13:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-08-10 14:02 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-10 17:08 ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-08-10 18:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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