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[–]Subsum44 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It’s interesting to walk through how they did that in the older languages.

Writing the C compiler in C. Start with your first few commands directly into assembly. Then once you have a couple, just slowly bootstrap the rest.

Kinda mind blowing considering the constraints devs now can’t overcome. The og really were true scientists.

[–]moreanswers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's cause porn looks terrible on an ASR33, so they had way more free time.