[fpc-pascal] Freepascal 2.0 for cygwin

Nikolay Nikolov nickysn at SexMagnet.com
Mon Aug 22 00:11:34 CEST 2005


L505 wrote:

>>Same applies to gcc ;) Without an older gcc you can't build a new one
>>except using a propritary compiler.
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>But where did that proprietary compiler come from? Hardware based?
>Molecules, Ions, and atoms?
>
>i.e. the answer to the big bang theory, the answer to religion, etc.
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The first compilers were written in assembly language. This allowed for 
the next generation compilers to be written in a high level language.




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