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by kragen 4920 days ago
Indeed. But A-0 isn't what we'd call a "compiler" today. It was a gradual evolution from Holberton's work (1948? 1949?) through A-0 in 1952, up to, say, 1957, when the first optimizing FORTRAN compiler was shipped, which is definitely what we would call a compiler today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_compiler_writing#Fi...