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<Darius>did someone here mention they were working on a new B compiler? I seem to vaguely remember that, and now a friend of mine would be interested. <nikita`>you mean other than ybc which requires BlitzMax? <nikita`>oh, the one by sergev looks very small. <Darius>thanks, those were specific enough keywords to find those <nikita`>it'll rain errors, so earlier c standards, or you want to fix up the code, but interesting enough to read <nikita`>(i guess, distracted by reading another language right now) <Darius>yeah, i'm only interested in reading them <Darius>i don't, but a friend wanted to read the original B compiler, wrote to ken thompson who said he didn't have the source, and i mentioned that someone had made a new one <Darius>and i wouldn't mind looking them over out of curiosity <nikita`>aren't the sources out there somewhere, even when ken doesn't have them? I don't remember how C came in, but some pojects exist which did early unix systems <nikita`>some iocc entry did early unix up to before-BSD or something and I don't remember if it included B <Darius>MCPL might also be of interest -- by the same guy who made the original bcpl <Darius>thanks, that retrocomputing page looks very helpful <nikita`>too bad our source cannonically doesn't go back with version control back to v7, it starts with checkin of some pre-4.4BSDLite2 <Darius>i guess i might code something b-like next too -- i've been wanting to get back into compilers but the prospect of typechecking like c just fills me with boredom