<story><title>Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972)</title><url>https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dboreham</author><text>Brings back some memories because this was the first &amp;quot;large&amp;quot; program available to me for study when I was first learning to program, around 1978.&lt;p&gt;Having talked my way into using the local university EE dept&amp;#x27;s 11&amp;#x2F;45, I found the source tree was mounted (they had a 90MB CDC &amp;quot;washing machine&amp;quot; drive) and decided to print it out on the 132-col Tally dot-matrix printer.&lt;p&gt;Some minutes into this, the sysadmin bursts into the terminal room, angrily asking &amp;quot;who&amp;#x27;s running this big print job&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I timidly raise my hand. He asks what I&amp;#x27;m printing. I tell him the C compiler source code because I want to figure out how it works. He responds &amp;quot;Oh, that&amp;#x27;s ok then, no problem, let me know if you need more paper loaded or a new ribbon&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dennis Ritchie’s first C compiler (c. 1972)</title><url>https://github.com/mortdeus/legacy-cc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>Previous discussion:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14669709&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14669709&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=5748672&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=5748672&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>