23 Jun
2004
23 Jun
'04
9:50 a.m.
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
Q: Current C compilers are written in C.
What was the FIRST C compiler written in?
Assembly (PDP-11).
MS
23 Jun
23 Jun
10:14 a.m.
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Michael Sokolov wrote:
That's right! (it was a rhetorical question)
After explaining that version N of a compiler is often
created using version N-1, and "proofed" in version N,
I use that to show that there are not turtles all the way down.
Q: Current C
compilers are written in C.
What was the FIRST C compiler written in?
Assembly (PDP-11).
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