How did we compile the first compiler?

>>59366464
It was written in assembly code.

>>59366464
First compiler was written in AT&T assembler.

No one knows, it's one of the big mysteries like how bees can fly.

>>59366510
>how bees can fly
I literally was just thinking of this. What the fuck life isn't real.

>>59366464
It all started when a random frogposter got punched in his fat stupid face.

>>59366464
the very first compiler was written in assembly.
later you could use that compiler to compile another compiler, e.g. the first Pascal compiler was written in Fortran.
far enough along the line and you get a compiler that is self-hosting - capable of compiling itself.

>>59366533
like a taco within a taco

>>59366558
That's not how that works at all.

How did we write the first assembly?

>>59366677
How did they google how to build the first computer?

>>59366677
machine code?

>>59366677
with punch cards or some shit probably

>>59366499
>AT&T
no wonder that people have despised cobol

>>59366677
PLEASE ANSWER

>>59366861
Machine code. Before that just manipulate transistors with physical switches. Before that punch cards and other mechanical processing

>>59366464
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)

Is it possible to just keep on self-compiling with performance-optimization to get a compiler that is infinite times faster?

>>59366527
Its wings are too small holy shit. Impossible!

>>59367199
Yes.

>>59366464
What a stupid question. It's like asking what existed before God. The answer is that just like God, the first compiler always existed.

>>59367229
checkmate atheists

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>>59366730

>>59367201

And they don't even require a battery? WTF?

What is a compiler?

Did we learn all this from aliens?

>>59366730
kek'd