On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:

Dunno. The first I dealt with was the f77 based on the pcc backend.

Hmm. I've found the source code for that compiler (/usr/source/fort in the v6 distribution) but there doesn't seem to be an attribution. The man page seems to be dated 8/20/73, but again lacks attribution; perhaps Ken wrote it?

- Dan C.

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I was not clear, evidently, although part of this is my memory's fault :-)

There was a fortran compiler on v6, written in assembly. I was wondering who wrote it.
On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:34 AM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
I spent a year or so working on this in 1977. I was wondering who wrote it.

Funny but: I once had a compile fail on Motorola's MPL compiler, which was written in fortran. It had so many continued comment lines that the 16-bit column number went negative, and I got a fairly obscure error.

Anyone remember who wrote it?