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by dvt 1900 days ago
The first (or proto) C compiler was written in B†[1] (called NB, or New B). This is the first C compiler written in C.

† Or maybe some variant of BCPL -- I'm not exactly sure how functionally different the two were.

[1] https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html