[comonoid]

C was designed to be compiled with a single-pass compiler.

[Joker_vD]

It wasn't; the original C compiler had two passes, and built expression trees in the first pass which the second pass would turn into assembly (and the original as on UNIX also had two passes).

[whobre]

C was not designed at all. It evolved from B, by adding types to it.

[fuzztester]

Yes.

And B evolved from BCPL:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL

I had read the book about BCPL by Martin Richards, creator of the language. it was quite interesting. IIRC, after describing the language, he gave some examples of small system software routines or utilities, written in it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Richards_(computer_sc...