[pups] bringing up the fist C compiler
Lars Brinkhoff
lars at nocrew.org
Fri Sep 6 20:52:22 AEST 2002
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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