Re: Compiler paradoxes

From: Mike Swaim (mpswaim_at_mdanderson.org)
Date: 10/08/03 

Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:34:13 -0500

"Ronald McDonald" <ldinters@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3f8466da@newsgroups.borland.com...
> So, if the compiler was written in Borland C++, what was C++ written in?

  The first implementations of C++ compiled to C. (And I think that you can
still buy the CFront compiler.) Interestingly, if you choose to compile a
PowerBuilder application to machine code (instead of P-Code), it compiles to
C, and then to machine code.

  The first implementation of C was in assembler on a PDP machine. 

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