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by 9rx 454 days ago
What's not quite correct?
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I apologize, I meant to reply to the parent!

I was refuting the idea that they sat down and wrote the C compiler in B, then rewrote the compiler in C and compiled it with the B-compiled C compiler. You and the parent might not have meant it that way but I wanted to clarify because in modern terms that is what many people will assume.