From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Feb 15 07:19:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17014 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:19:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA17008 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:19:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sven@chain.demon.nl) Received: from [195.173.248.152] (helo=chain.loc) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 10CPnr-0000oj-00; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:19:19 +0000 Received: from chain.demon.nl (spitfire.chain.loc [192.168.0.2]) by chain.loc (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA00433; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 17:19:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sven@chain.demon.nl) Message-ID: <36C83B11.FC3AFE88@chain.demon.nl> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:19:45 +0100 From: Sven Hazejager Organization: CHAIN Software Technology B.V. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en,nl,nl-BE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: root@isis.dynip.com CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Strange Question References: <199902142103.AAA08919@isis.dynip.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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