BSD wc hasn't been touched in a year. GNU wc's recent patches were either the addition of features, or bugfixes for what seem to be relatively new features. Or optimization.
But you could pull in wc from V7 on modern computers, and it would still work. (assuming GCC can still compile K&R C).
Yup. Likewise, the version of `wc` from Kernighan & Plaugher's «Software Tools in Pascal» still compiles and runs with any ol' ISO Pascal compiler, and still does exactly what the manpage says it does.
As an aside, I'm pretty sure K&R C is a subset of ANSI C, so any ANSI C compiler should be able to compile K&R C.
But you could pull in wc from V7 on modern computers, and it would still work. (assuming GCC can still compile K&R C).