Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:22:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: root@isis.dynip.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very Strange Question Message-ID: <199902161422.JAA01153@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <199902142103.AAA08919@isis.dynip.com> from "root@isis.dynip.com" at "Feb 15, 99 00:03:15 am"
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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 ?
>From Kernighan and Ritchie, _The C Programming Language_, p. xi,
"C was originally designed for and implemented on the UNIX
operating system on the DEC PCP-11, by Dennis Ritchie. The operating
system, the C compiler, and essentially all UNIX application
programs... are written in C."
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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