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I believe B, C's precursor language, was written in raw assembly language. Then they wrote a C compiler in B.
 

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MIXASM(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 MIXASM(1)

NAME
mixasm -- the MIX virtual machine assembler SYNOPSIS
mixasm [-n | --ndebug] [-l | --list list-file] [-o | --output output-file] MIX_FILE mixasm [-h | --help] [-u | --usage] [-v | --version] DESCRIPTION
The mixasm utility is an assembler for the MIX virtual machine. The MIX is Donald Knuth's mythical computer, described in the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming, which is programmed using MIXAL, the MIX assembly language. ENVIRONMENT
The operation of the mixasm utility is not affected by its environment. EXIT STATUS
The mixasm utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
Compile a MIX assembly language file: mixasm primes.mixal Load a MIXAL program and run it in the MIX virtual machine: mixvm -r hello.mix SEE ALSO
gmixvm(1), mixguile(1), mixvm(1) STANDARDS
No standards documentation was harmed in the process of creating mixasm. AUTHOR
The mixasm utility was developed by Jose A. Ortega Ruiz, Pieter E. J. Pareit, Philip E. King, Michael Scholz and Sergey Poznyakoff. This manual page was written by Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> for the Debian Project. BSD
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