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From: chips@usfvax2.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Using C to describe itself
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Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 15:24:10 EDT
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Summary: Ritchie's Trojan horse?
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In article <7360@boring.mcvax.cwi.nl>, Steven Pemberton writes:
> In article <1403@uwmacc.UUCP> Mark Edwards writes:
> >   Yes indeed C can describe itself.
> 
> Actually, I'm not completely convinced of this.
> [...]
> Evidence of this is in Dennis Ritchie's Turing award lecture: he had built a
> trojan horse into the C compiler. The compiler looked identical to its
> previous self, but actually compiled a (slightly) different language.

I've never heard of Ritchie's "Turing award lecture".  What was that lecture,
and what exactly was the Trojan horse you mention?
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