The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper, in 1952, for the A-0 System language. C was therefore useful for many applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, B preceded C but most probably PDP-7 assembler language was the choosed to write the first C compiler which is developed by Dennis Ritchie, one of the first C compilers developed by Stephen Johnson was writing PCC(Portable C Compiler) in C. It is even possible to compile a C compiler with itself. This process, which is called bootstrapping.
Resource:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_writing
- stackoverflow.com/questions/1653649/how-was-the-first-compiler-written
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language
- bytes.com/topic/c/answers/212166-c-compiler-written-c-what
| The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper, in 1952, for the A-0 System language |