Cobol - Re: C and COBOL (was: If you were inventing CoBOL...)

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Re: C and COBOL (was: If you were inventing CoBOL...)

Robert Wagner

2004-09-28, 3:55 pm

On 23 Sep 2004 09:30:00 GMT, l.willms@jpberlin.de (Lueko Willms)
wrote:

>. Am 21.09.04
>schrieb robert@wagner.net.yourmammaharvests (Robert Wagner)
> auf /COMP/LANG/COBOL
> in 7kh0l0p9qqtl78scdnd72kn91im99iuhig@4ax.com
> ueber Re: If you were inventing CoBOL...
>
>RW> The first C compiler was available in 1972 (also the first Unix).
>
> Available to whom?

It was available globally to everyone working for Bell Labs and
running a PDP-7. The first commercial C compiler was Whitesmiths in
1978.

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