Creo que la última cita responde a tu pregunta<br>
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&quot;<strong>En 1951, </strong><a href="http://www-etsi2.ugr.es/alumnos/mlii/Grace%20Hooper.htm"><strong>Grace
Murray Hooper</strong></a><strong> (1906-1992) da la primera
noción de compilador y más tarde desarrolla el </strong><a href="http://www-etsi2.ugr.es/alumnos/mlii/Lenguajes.htm#COBOL"><strong>COBOL</strong></a><strong>.
Pero fue John Backus, en 1957, el que desarrolla el primer
compilador para </strong><a href="http://www-etsi2.ugr.es/alumnos/mlii/Lenguajes.htm#FORTRAN"><strong>FORTRAN</strong></a><strong>.
En 1958, John MacCarthy propone el </strong><a href="http://www-etsi2.ugr.es/alumnos/mlii/Lenguajes.htm#LISP"><strong>LISP</strong></a><strong>, un
lenguaje orientado a la realización de aplicaciones en el
ámbito de la </strong><a href="http://www-etsi2.ugr.es/alumnos/mlii/inteligencia.htm"><strong>Inteligencia
Artificial</strong></a><strong>. Casi de forma paralela, Alan
Perlis, John Backus y Peter Naur desarrollan el lenguaje </strong><a href="http://www-etsi2.ugr.es/alumnos/mlii/Lenguajes.htm#ALGOL"><strong>ALGOL</strong></a><strong>.&quot;</strong><br><br>
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The first C compiler writers had a variation on the <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ChickenAndEggProblem">ChickenAndEggProblem</a>. They needed to write C compilers. C made a great language for writing C compilers.  Of course, you couldn't actually 
<em>compile</em>
your first C compiler until you wrote a C compiler. This sounds like a
paradox, but it really wasn't. You would simply build up a compiler
from a hybrid of C and assembly, perhaps even hand assembling some of
the C. As your compiler got better, you'd eventually port more and more
of the compiler to C. Eventually you'd have a C compiler written
completely in C, which could compile itself. Each C compiler could then
give birth to better C compilers.

[<em>C evolved from B [see <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BeeLanguage">BeeLanguage</a>],
which already had a compiler written in B. However, that compiler was a
rewrite of a B compiler written in TMG, and the compiler for the
implementation of TMG used was written in an assembly language for the
PDP7. I assume the assembler ultimately derived from a 'hand-assembled'
program. See <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DennisRitchie">DennisRitchie</a>'s account at <a href="http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html">http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html</a>.</em>]&quot;<br>
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<strong>History</strong>
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The first compiler was developed in 1952 by Grace Hopper, a pioneering
computer scientist. She said that she invented it because she was lazy
and wished that &quot;the programmer may return to being a mathematician.&quot;
She is also well known for her important role in the development of the
COBOL programming language (which is still in widespread use for
business applications), including the development of the first COBOL
compiler.
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<p>The number of compilers grew swiftly accompanying the proliferation
of programming languages and processors and the advances in compiler
technology. The 1990s saw a surge in the introduction of free compilers
and compiler development tools, including open source compilers
developed as part of the <a href="http://www.bellevuelinux.org/gnu.html">GNU</a> project. 
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The highly regarded GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) is considered by many
to be the most important piece of open source software. Formerly called
the GNU C Compiler, it now contains compilers for the C, C++, Objective
C, Fortran, Java and Ada programming languages. It has been <i>ported to</i>  (i.e., modified to run on) more processors and operating systems than any other compiler, and it runs on in excess of 60 <a href="http://www.bellevuelinux.org/platform.html">
<i>platforms</i></a> (i.e., combinations of processors and operating systems).&quot;<br>
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<p>&quot;-<font face="Arial"><b>Which was the first compiler ? And in which language was it written in?<br>
&nbsp;-</b></font><font face="Arial"><b>The first complier was the A-0, written by Grace Hopper. It was made from assembly.&quot;</b></font>






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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sebastian Bassi</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sbassi@gmail.com">sbassi@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 4/21/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman &lt;<a href="mailto:buanzo@buanzo.com.ar">buanzo@buanzo.com.ar</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; El gcc :)<br><br>Y que compilo primero el GCC? Al huevo o a la gallina?<br>Mas en serio: ¿Con que se compilo el primer compilador?
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