From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 16 06:21:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA22116 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:21:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22111 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 06:21:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01153; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:22:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199902161422.JAA01153@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Very Strange Question In-Reply-To: <199902142103.AAA08919@isis.dynip.com> from "root@isis.dynip.com" at "Feb 15, 99 00:03:15 am" To: root@isis.dynip.com Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 09:22:48 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message