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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: C23 on MSVC
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:35:20 -0500
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On 1/22/25 21:28, Jack Lemmon wrote:
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> compile it to be used by other objects. This is the same as in C or
> C++. First release were in assembly and any enhancement were in the
> same language = C or C++ respectively.

Not quite - the original C++ compiler was Cfront, which produced C code
which was then compiled by a conventional C compiler. Per Wikipedia:

"As Cfront was written in C++, it was a challenge to bootstrap on a
machine without a C++ compiler/translator. Along with the Cfront C++
sources, a special "half-preprocessed" version of the C code resulting
from compiling Cfront with itself was also provided. This C code was to
be compiled with the native C compiler, and the resulting executable
could then be used to compile the Cfront C++ sources."