If compiler for c is written in c language, which is used to complie the compiler?

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rekha

  • Sep 30th, 2005
 

C Compiler

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ajay kumar

  • Apr 18th, 2006
 

C compiler was written in C language,that is true.But that does not say in what language first C compiler was written.I think first C compiler might have used assembly language instructions.And after that further compilers might have used this(or other compilers that was built the same way) compiler to compile the other newly build compilers.

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yba

  • Jul 10th, 2007
 

The first C compiler was likely written in the B language.  The developers were so influenced by the language BCPL, that until the debut of C++, programmers openly speculated whether the next language out of Bell Labs would be called D or P.

There were many intermediate languages between toggling in binary numbers with switches and the first K&R C.  Kernighan wrote a book that taught programming using a Fortran preprocessor called Ratfor, which formatted Fortran IV to look like structured, free-format C code.

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