23 Jun
2004
23 Jun
'04
11:40 a.m.
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:13:03 -0700 (PDT)
"Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com> wrote:
I thought the puzzle was whether C's successor would
be *D* or *P*...
--don
From: "der Mouse"
<mouse(a)rodents.montreal.qc.ca>
sure there
was.
Q: Current C compilers are written in C.
What was the FIRST C compiler written in?
Was there a well-defined "first C compiler"? I'm not The language we know today as C has evolved over
many
years, and it's
hard to find an obvious place to draw a
"before this was
not C" line.
There was a 'B' as well. I don't recall hearing about a
'A'.