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Comment by fernly

Um, excuse me, but there existed a Tiny-C in 1979. Whatever you are talking about creating in 2000 is in no way an original idea.

References:

Dr. Dobb's Journal #32 (Feb 1979) page 41, review of Tiny-C User Manual by Ted Shapin [0]

Dr. Dobb's Journal #35 (May 1979) page 37, "Tiny-C Interpreter on C-Dos" by Ray Duncan[1]

Tiny-C Associates incorporated in Holmdel, NJ, March 1978 [2]

"Tiny C" trademark application filed 1979, cancelled 1987 [3]

There was also a "Small C", see DDJ #45 (May 1980), "A Small C Compiler for the 8080s" by Ron Cain[4]. Cain references buying a copy of "the Tiny-C interpreter from Tiny-C Associates" and finding it too slow, so he bootstraps his own C compiler, writing it in C, compiles it on a UNIX system, then using it to compile itself to get the 8080 machine code.

See also DDJ #69 (July 1982) p. 66, "Small C for the 9900" by Matthew Halfant[5], porting Cain's compiler to another platform.

[0] https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_04_201803/p...

[1] https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_04_201803/p...

[2] https://www.bizapedia.com/nj/tiny-c-associates.html

[3] https://alter.com/trademarks/tiny-c-73219160

[4]https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_05_201803/p...

[5] https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_07_201803/p...

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