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[The guru's] contemptuous response is still etched on my brain, "Who the hell do you think you are thinking you can write a C compiler?" I guess this guy never
by ScottBurson 13y ago
[The guru's] contemptuous response is still etched on my brain, "Who the hell do you think you are thinking you can write a C compiler?"
I guess this guy never heard of Leor Zolman and the BD Software C Compiler [0] :-)
I got a lot of use out of that compiler back in the day, but I can tell you, Leor had no idea what he was doing when he started.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS_C
- WalterBright 13y agoLeor's a great guy and is still actively programming.
- ScottBurson 13y agoYeah, he and I traded emails briefly 7 or 8 years ago, I think, but didn't really have that much to talk about. But we go way back -- we were in the same class and same dorm at MIT (before he dropped out and wrote BDS C), and were housemates for about a year c. 1981-82. Ever hear of MINCE? It was a micro-Emacs that first ran on CP/M, later MS-DOS. The first version was developed using BDS C.
- WalterBright 13y agoI've heard of it, but have never used it.
- ScottBurson 13y agoAh. Well, I was one of the founders of Mark of the Unicorn, and helped write MINCE (though most of the credit belongs to my colleagues Jason Linhart and Craig Finseth).