This popped up in some other thread recently. It was (still is, I suppose) a standard ANSI C89 compiler with a couple of small extensions and tweaks. Ken Thomps

This popped up in some other thread recently. It was (still is, I suppose) a standard ANSI C89 compiler with a couple of small extensions and tweaks. Ken Thompson's short overview is here - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/compiler.html http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/compiler.html You can nerdmuse yourself a little by googling why it had a #pragma hjdicks