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But how was the first compiler bootstrapped? Serious question (how can a compiler of X language be written in X?)

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But how was the first compiler bootstrapped? Serious question (how can a compiler of X language be written in X?)

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coliveira7y ago· 4 in thread

They wrote in another language. I think the bootstrap C compiler was written in BCPL.

More info can be found here (straight from the source...)

And, for example, C++ was originally a C program that transpiled C++ -> C.

No, it wasn’t. “Transpile” is not a real word. There is no need to desecrate the first ever C++ compiler.

Thsts awesome. Id love to see a lineage tree of early language development.

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