Re: What about Assembly Language?
"early C compilers and interpreters were also coded in assembly".
Nope. The earliest C compilers were written in C. It's possible, but highly unlikely, a few masochists chose to write these in assembly because they didn't know any better.
Read this article by the bloke who invented the language (amongst one or two other things):
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.html
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