[TUHS] Pre-Struct C Compiler with Funny Syntax Resurrected

Douglas McIlroy douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Fri Feb 21 01:00:47 AEST 2025


Yufeng,

> I've recently brought the "prestruct-c" compiler back to "life"

Great archeology! It seems you've unearthed a snapshot from the brief
period when Dennis was struggling to reconcile byte addressing with BCPL
pointers--the seminal innovation of C. In characteristic Unix fashion, he
was trying out his ideas as they developed.

I had forgotten that product types were under con-struct-ion at the same
time. That really was a big bang.

Doug
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