If you need a programming language to develop a programming language then how was the first programming language developed?😵

By punching holes into cards, yo.

There’s an interesting story of how GCC itself was compiled. Since it is a compiler, once the initial foundation of the program was built, they would use it to compile newer iterations of itself.

In simpler words, the compiler compiled itself.

circuitry -> machine code -> assembly -> high level

@benrooke it's called bootstrapping and is basically the route for every compiler

You have to bootstrap the compiler [1] to the new language, in an existing language. Once you understand that, go read a a quick explaination on the Ken Thompson Hack [2] and get realllly paranoid.

[1]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

[2]:https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/...

I am going to write a blog about this..

@aEEEdev please do share it here after you complete it

@CuriousEngineer Sure..

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@codebanana holy fuck. I'm never using a computer again.

@codebanana

You know what could be a sinister plot.. Infecting a compiler which compiles software used for login in most servers .. wait for a year so .. until all known systems gets replaced with that infected source.. Replace all known binary versions from the servers.. Then let the world know that there is a problem..

Nothing will be trustworthy.. It will be fun to see at which level people start to recompile all the binaries..

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