K&R vs ANSI-c

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <650 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave at cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
>You could always hire some grad student(s) fresh from a compiler
>writing course to write a new compiler for you... You may not get
>the most killer-optimizing tight code compiler, but at least you'd
>have something that works...

Actually, if the students are not completely inept, they would probably
port GNU CC instead of trying to implement their own compiler from
scratch.  GNU CC can generate pretty good code.