In what language was C written?

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Programming languages are generally written in English, with occasional BNF where necessary to define the grammar formally (the C spec has about 16 pages of that)

If you're asking what languages are used to write C compilers, it depends on the compiler: most C compilers today are written in C++. The very first C compiler was written in either B or NB (see Chistory for details).



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