Comment Re:C used in your favorite programming language (Score 1) 535
The words Bootstrapping compiler spring to mind
The GCC compiler was written in C, and is now being used to rewrite the GCC compiler in C++ and the C-GCC compiler will be used to compile it initially
LLVM was compiled using a C based compiler then LLVM used to compile itself
Almost all compilers were originally assembler, then C, then bootstrapped themselves