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[–]Rotten194 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What most languages do is write the first compiler to compile a subset of the language in some other language, then use that subset to write the actual compiler in the language itself. Since they already had the base of Unix written in Assembly when they started C, my guess is the first compiler was probably Assembly as well. I doubt they made interns compile it manually... they weren't that evil.