Which Language has been used to develop C compiler ?
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Which Language has been used to develop C compiler ?
It is developed in C itself
The first c compiler was developed using assembly language and now we use compilers written in C itself.
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Giving it a quick scan, I'm not sure if Ritchie says so explicitly, but the first C compiler was either written in PDP assembler or B.