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by SCHiM 4068 days ago
On the C++ to C translators: The first actual C++ compiler was actually a trans-compiler to C (actually the language was still called cFront back then, but basically it's the first version of C++[0]).

So in that case, the C++ to C compiler was there before the first real C++ compiler which appeared some time later.

[0] http://www.cplusplus.com/info/history/