From: bqt@update.uu.se (Johnny Billquist)
Subject: [pups] Bringing up the fist C compiler
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:38:06 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0209051137100.4341-100000@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15735.4259.641449.366341@tfeb.org>
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> 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.
Well, I have a C compiler written in MACRO-11...
C wasn't written in C at the start, you know...
Johnny
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-05 8:06 Tim Bradshaw
2002-09-05 8:16 ` Warren Toomey
2002-09-05 9:38 ` Johnny Billquist [this message]
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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