How was the first compiler compiled?

[Juan Pablo]

THis may sound silly but .. I just want to know

Just curious ...

If somebody know please tell me..

Thanks

[easuter]

hm, that sounds like a chinese riddle.....

this should explaint it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler#History

it seems programmers had to make the first compilers (and other programs) by entering the binary or hexadecimal code themselves. i guess those programmers really talked to the computers eh?

[mattypiper]

Interesting question!

The term "bootstrapping" comes into play here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstr...28compilers%29

[Juan Pablo]

Compiling manually! That's weird!

[Roxoff]

if you've not sat at the console of an old 80's 8 bit computer POKEing machine code that you assembled yourself using the cpu manual into memory, then you've never lived.

[mattypiper]

if you've not sat at the console of an old 80's 8 bit computer POKEing machine code that you assembled yourself using the cpu manual into memory, then you've never lived.

It puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

[Juan Pablo]

I haven't borned in 1980

[Roxoff]

I haven't borned in 1980

That may be true, but surely you existed at some point after 1980, when such machines were invented?

That answer is like saying 'I dont drive because when the car was invented in the 1900's, I wasn't born...'

[bidi]

That may be true, but surely you existed at some point after 1980, when such machines were invented?

That answer is like saying 'I dont drive because when the car was invented in the 1900's, I wasn't born...'

I agree, I was born in 1983 and still managed to poke around in one of those, a TRS-80 CoCo to be precise. Played games on it up until '90 or '91 (mostly educational games). Last I check the language was Microsoft BASIC.

[Juan Pablo]

I was born on 1990! And my first computer contact was at 5

So I didn't have any chance to use that computers

I couldn't express the way I wanted beacuse of my bad english, sorry