19 Sep
2017
19 Sep
'17
8:46 a.m.
Noel Chiappa writes:
It mentions a PDP-10 version on page 5.
That makes
sense if it's '73. That would be the Ritchie front end
and v5/v6 syntax as I remember=20
Here:
http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/specpub.php?id=717
is the TR describing it (well, this report covers one by him for the
Honeywell 6000 series, but IIRC it's the same compiler). I didn't read the whole thing slowly, but
glancing quickly at it, it
sounds like it's possible a 'from scratch' thing?
That's my impression. Various places claim this compiler was an
inspiration for PCC. Also, Snyder was the one to suggest a preprocessor
and the && and || operators.
I'm in touch with someone who has the source code for the compiler, but
we can't release it to the public without consent from Alan.