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If there was nothing to program then how first programming language was made? This question is pissing me off.
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...through assembly. then they use the newly made programming language to improve it.
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This process is called bootstrapping.
The first compiler was written in assembly, since there were no compilers to compile C with yet.
The first assembler was written in machine code since there were no assemblers to assemble the assembler with.
Once you have bootstrapped say a C compiler usually one of the first things you do is to write a C compiler in C so you can throw away the old crappy one.
There's a Computerphile video with Prof. Brailsford where he said that he didn't know who wrote the first assembler at his uni in the 60s(?), everyone just kind of had it and sent it to everyone else. Different times, ha.
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That would be a form of machine code yeah.
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