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The High C Compiler was designed and built by the geniuses at MetaWare: Frank deRemer (MIT) and Tom Pennello (UCSC), the pair who invented LALR2 parsing. I work
by aamargulies 3y ago
The High C Compiler was designed and built by the geniuses at MetaWare: Frank deRemer (MIT) and Tom Pennello (UCSC), the pair who invented LALR2 parsing. I worked there in the early 90s, great memories of Tom editing compiler code in his windows terminal so quickly that the screen couldn't update fast enough to keep up with him, he continued editing 'in the blind' on unseen code. Those two are/were seriously gifted computer scientists and they gave me my start in the software industry.
- kencausey 3y agoOn what platform did development take place?
- aamargulies 3y agoWe all had windows machines on our desks, but MetaWare made cross-compilers for the complete cross product of every flavor of CPU and OS. So lots of SunOS/Solaris servers, BSD, IBM 360, Irix, etc servers on the network.
- kencausey 3y agoThanks, I was thinking of early development which I'm assuming is well before the existence of Windows. However I understand you may not have awareness of this period of development.
- aamargulies 3y agoLikely on UCSC's VAXen running BSD4.2.
- aamargulies 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LALR_parser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LALR_parser https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/69622.357187 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/69622.357187