Re: [OT] a.out

[achana saysit com]

I wonder whether Ritchie and Kernigan are still around to pontificate
over that...
Jürgen Weiß wrote:
> 
> Am Fre, 2002-09-27 um 16.33 schrieb Robert Fausey:
> > Does anyone know the reason why the default executable name for gcc is
> > a.out?  I did a search and all I could find was for historical reasons, is
> > there more documentaion about this.
> >
> >
> > Rob Fausey.
> >
> >
> 
> Thompson's PDP-7 assembler outdid even DEC's in simplicity; it evaluated
> expressions and emitted the corresponding bits. There were no libraries,
> no loader or link editor: the entire source of a program was presented
> to the assembler, and the output file­with a fixed name­that emerged was
> directly executable. (This name, a.out, explains a bit of Unix
> etymology; it is the output of the assembler. Even after the system
> gained a linker and a means of specifying another name explicitly, it
> was retained as the default executable result of a compilation.)
> 
> From: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
> 
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