From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lars@nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Date: 06 Sep 2002 12:52:22 +0200
Subject: [pups] bringing up the fist C compiler
In-Reply-To: <200209061028.g86AS8s10221@minnie.tuhs.org>
References: <200209061028.g86AS8s10221@minnie.tuhs.org>
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Warren Toomey <wkt at minnie.tuhs.org> writes:
> In article by Lars Brinkhoff:
> > Warren Toomey <wkt at minnie.tuhs.org> writes:
> > > The chist paper doesn't mention NB, which was the missing link between
> > > B and C.
> > 
> > How about this?
> > 
> >   In 1971 I began to extend the B language by adding a character type
> >   and also rewrote its compiler to generate PDP-11 machine instructions
> >   instead of threaded code.  Thus the transition from B to C was
> >   contemporaneous with the creation of a compiler capable of producing
> >   programs fast and small enough to compete with assembly language.  I
> >   called the slightly-extended language NB, for `new B.'
> > 
> >   [...]
> 
> Yes that's it!! Where did you find it?

In the chist paper.

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