"Nobody programs in machine language" (was: Modern

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Wed Jun 23 17:14:49 2004

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> > Q: Current C compilers are written in C.
> > What was the FIRST C compiler written in?
>
> Assembly (PDP-11).

That's right! (it was a rhetorical question)
After explaining that version N of a compiler is often
created using version N-1, and "proofed" in version N,
I use that to show that there are not turtles all the way down.
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 17:14:49 BST