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The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson?  I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W.  Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT).  This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C.  This was a surprise for Steven when he came back to the Labs.  Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)
The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson?  I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W.  Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT).  This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C.  This was a surprise for Steve when he came back to the Labs.  Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff|talk]]) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)

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The Bell Labs alumnus, would that be Steve Johnson? I understand he wrote Yacc in B, and then left for U of W. Then Alan Snyder came to the Labs (from MIT). This was the time of the transition from B to C, so he rewrote Yacc in C. This was a surprise for Steve when he came back to the Labs. Alan later went back to MIT, and wrote a C compiler running on ITS. Larsbrinkhoff (talk) 07:59, 11 January 2019 (CET)