A C compiler in LISP, a LISP in C, and the subject that changed my life
In 1986 I took Compiler Techniques under Bruce Ellis and wrote a C compiler in LISP. I have got it running again, on hardware that did not exist when I wrote it.
Preservation
2 articles and 1 project.
Writing
Can you still read the files you made thirty years ago?
What it took to recover my own conference papers from Word 2.0 and PowerPoint 4.0, and what it taught me about who is actually keeping my archive readable.
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Projects
lisp-cc
The C compiler I wrote in LISP for Bruce Ellis's Compiler Techniques subject at Sydney, recovered and grown into a full K&R 1978 compiler that emits arm64 instead of VAX. Ships with a reconstruction of the LISP interpreter it was marked against and the 1979 Seventh Edition C library, so the whole thing still bootstraps itself to a byte-identical fixed point.
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