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

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.