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== Cfront ==
The first compiler was Cfront created by Bjarne Stroustrup in 1983.

Cfront converted C++ code into C, but the resulting output was not easily readable or understandable by humans. 

* The generated C code was then converted by the C compiler to the machine code.

Later, new C++ compilers were created. These compilers converted C++ directly to the machine code.