Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:19:45 +0100 From: Sven Hazejager <sven@chain.demon.nl> To: root@isis.dynip.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Strange Question Message-ID: <36C83B11.FC3AFE88@chain.demon.nl> References: <199902142103.AAA08919@isis.dynip.com>
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The very first compiler was written in assembly code, and it was used to compile the second compiler, which was written in the same language as it was meant to compile. This compiler was then used as the standard compiler. Regards, Sven Hazejager root@isis.dynip.com wrote: > Ok, we all know that famous debate about who came first, the chicken or > the egg, on a similar scale, now you compile any c program with a > compiler, right , like cc, so as to say, cc compiler itself is a > program, so how it was first compiled, something like MS debug under > dos, or what. I mean the FIRST ever compiler generated, how it was > compiled into an exceutable ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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