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Thank you for pointing this out. It obviously can't be his first C compiler because it's written in C! :) I'm not even sure it's the first C compiler written

Thank you for pointing this out. It obviously can't be his first C compiler because it's written in C! :) I'm not even sure it's the first C compiler written in C, though - it just says in the github description "the very first c compiler known to exist in the wild." Regardless, if it's from 1972 it's a very early version.

mywittyname 6y ago
> Thank you for pointing this out. It obviously can't be his first C compiler because it's written in C! :) This isn't obvious to me. I just assumed that the first iteration was compiled by hand to bootstrap a minimum workable version. Then the language would be extended slightly, and that version would be compiled with the compiler v. n-1 until a full-feature compiler is made. It makes sense to write a compiler in a different language, but given the era, I could see hand-compilation still being a thing.