Welcome to the 14th year of comp.compilers

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the 14th year of comp.compilers, which
started as mod.compilers on January 3rd, 1986. The compiler field has
moved quite a distance since then, when most of us were still writing
16 bit programs on PDP-11s, nobody used a GUI to do programming, and a
lot of optimizations that compilers now routinely do on $1000 PCs were
too expensive for anyone but a compiler researcher on a mainframe or
at least a $100,000 time-shared VAX to use.


All of the old messages are still in the archive at
http://www.iecc.com/compilers, and some are still interesting.


A happy new year to all the readers.


Regards,
John Levine, comp.compilers moderator,
johnl@iecc.com, http://iecc.com/compilers


PS: Your moderator venally points out that you might like to read some
of the draft chapters of his upcoming "Linkers and Loaders" on the web
site at http://www.iecc.com/linker, particularly since people who make
the most helpful comments will get free autographed copies.

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