Alain <ele### [at] netscape net> wrote:
> The first C compiler was writen and compiled in C.
If it was the first, that means there was no C compiler, so the writers had to
hand compile the compiler by direct translating it to assembly and then using
that binary to compile it again. That should've been quite a straightforward
task, as C is very close to assembly and it was just a first unoptimized
version anyway.
not so sure about the feasibility of having to hand compile a huge Haskell
codebase like GHC... *gasp*...
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