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Anyone here use assembly?(lemm.ee)

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wewbull@feddit.uk
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Only the most very basic compilers. C compilers are in C mainly.

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davel@lemmy.ml
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Not the first C compiler obviously. According to this Stack Overflow post, BCPL* begat B, which begat C. Language self-hosting is pretty fascinating.

*Perhaps BCPL was originally written in assembly; I’m not certain: https://github.com/SergeGris/BCPL-compiler

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ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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Talking about bootstrap here?

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wewbull@feddit.uk
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Indeed

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Revan343@lemmy.ca
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And that’s how you get the Thompson hack

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