5 Sep
2002
5 Sep
'02
3:38 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
Is there a description anywhere of how C was
originally bootstrapped?
I'm sure it was nothing unconventional, but the question of how you
bring up compilers for other languages which are implemented in their
own language seems to mystify some people to the extent that they
argue that the compiler must be written in C (which is `always
there'), and I thought it would be good to have the real story about C
to tell them.
Well, I have a C compiler written in MACRO-11...
C wasn't written in C at the start, you know...
Johnny
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