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A comment on Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007). Parent comment

Re:Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007) by kzisme on Friday September 08, 2017 @04:13PM (#15203553)
If I remember correctly Go's first few compiler implementations were written in C, but later were written in Go (bootstrapped by C).
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Re:Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007) by FreeFull on Saturday September 09, 2017 @03:14AM (#15205927)
They actually wrote a tool that turned C code into (unidiomatic) Go code, and then later gradually improved the codebase they got from that.
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