20 Sep
2017
20 Sep
'17
10:55 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars(a)nocrew.org> wrote:
Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
Kok Chen's work was the basis for the Greg Titis compiler. It wound up on a
bunch of DECUS tapes, but never seems to have taken off (Greg seems to
think as many as 20 copies existed in the wild). I heard from him off list.
He started with the kcc compiler, then rewrite the scanner, parser and
code-gen, leaving behind just the interfaces. Sadly, he lost all copies he
had in a flood in maybe 1988. He recommends the latter-day kcc as well as
being the best compiler to use if you want to have a more purist
experience. gcc on tops-20 just feels wrong, even to him (he's spent the
years since then doing various compiler things for Cray).
Anyway, just another bit of trivia for this wonderful thread.
Warner
kcc was written by Ken Harrenstien from scratch
Rewritten maybe? Some KCC source code files have the comment
"Original version (c) 1981 K. Chen"
which I take to mean referencing Kok Chen.