Re: The History of the ALGOL Effort

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
12 Sep 2006 00:02:29 -0400

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 12 Sep 2006 00:02:29 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 06-08-082 06-08-086 06-08-105 06-08-138 06-09-050
Keywords: history, linker
Posted-Date: 12 Sep 2006 00:02:29 EDT

Henry Spencer wrote:


(snip regarding Pascal and languages that don't allow for separate
compilation.)


> And that, in turn, contributed to the rise of C, because the fact was that
> people needed and wanted separate compilation.


I would probably argue that wasn't the primary reason, but it may
have contributed.


(snip)


> [Back in the 1970s at Dartmouth, the DTSS compilers were also so fast that
> they didn't have a linker and for most purposes, didn't even bother to
> save object code. They finally wrote a linker in about 1976 when they
> added PL/I. -John]


WATFIV, one of the fastest compilers I used to use, had no ability to
generate IBM standard object modules, but it could read them. They
could be generated from assembly code, or from IBM's Fortran compilers.


-- glen
[WATFOR and WATFIV generated fairly lousy code, but it was plenty fast for
the student jobs we used it for. -John]


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