From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff) Date: 05 Sep 2002 12:15:24 +0200 Subject: [pups] Bringing up the fist C compiler In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <854rd4pwsj.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Johnny Billquist writes: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tim Bradshaw wrote: > > * Johnny Billquist wrote: > > > Well, I have a C compiler written in MACRO-11... > > > C wasn't written in C at the start, you know... > > Yes, I realise that! Many people (not readers of this list!) seem to > > assume that C is eternal though. From the paper that Warren pointed > > me at (thanks) it looks like the only missing link is how TMG > > originally got onto the PDP-7... > How? It was written, of course. In assembler. By that time, you already > had the assembler, an editor, and other commonly used system programs, so > it's just a case of the normal development cycle. And tracing further backwards, the assembler was pheraps originally developed in GECOS? -- Lars Brinkhoff http://lars.nocrew.org/ Linux, GCC, PDP-10, Brinkhoff Consulting http://www.brinkhoff.se/ HTTP programming