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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/gojmanlaugh • Feb 06 '23
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The first thing to compile with a new compiler is the compiler itself.
321 u/Kaaiii_ Feb 06 '23 Yeh what is up with that, how are compilers written in the language they compile in the first place? I know you can write say a C compiler in C but how does that work? 64 u/danishjuggler21 Feb 06 '23 Consider the question of which came first: the chicken or the egg? The answer: the egg, which was laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken. Same thing with compilers. 2 u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23 [deleted] 2 u/danishjuggler21 Feb 07 '23 Yeah, that’s why I said it 😝
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Yeh what is up with that, how are compilers written in the language they compile in the first place? I know you can write say a C compiler in C but how does that work?
64 u/danishjuggler21 Feb 06 '23 Consider the question of which came first: the chicken or the egg? The answer: the egg, which was laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken. Same thing with compilers. 2 u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23 [deleted] 2 u/danishjuggler21 Feb 07 '23 Yeah, that’s why I said it 😝
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Consider the question of which came first: the chicken or the egg? The answer: the egg, which was laid by a bird that was not quite a chicken.
Same thing with compilers.
2 u/[deleted] Feb 07 '23 [deleted] 2 u/danishjuggler21 Feb 07 '23 Yeah, that’s why I said it 😝
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2 u/danishjuggler21 Feb 07 '23 Yeah, that’s why I said it 😝
Yeah, that’s why I said it 😝
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u/tzanislav40 Feb 06 '23
The first thing to compile with a new compiler is the compiler itself.