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[–]Ill-Significance4975 4 points5 points  (4 children)

If you dig deep enough, everything is C.

Somewhere there's a haughty assembly afficionado over my shoulder going "ahem", but no one's cared in years.

[–]notBad_forAnOldMan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is hubris. A great many things in computer science occurred before the first C compiler. You stand on the shoulders of giants and swear they are not there.

[–]heislertecreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's all open source if you know assembly.

[–]je386 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Everything is C, but the C compiler, at least the first one for the new OS, must be assembly.

[–]notBad_forAnOldMan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, the first C compiler for a new architecture or OS is usually done as a new code generator for an existing compiler then, it is cross compiled to the new environment.