If you want to be pedantic, Caml was bootstrapped from Lisp, not C. Quoting from http://caml.inria.fr/about/history.en.html http://caml.inria.fr/about/history.e

If you want to be pedantic, Caml was bootstrapped from Lisp, not C. Quoting from http://caml.inria.fr/about/history.en.html http://caml.inria.fr/about/history.en.html "The first implementation of Caml appeared in 1987. This implementation compiled Caml down to LLM3, the virtual machine of the Le_Lisp system."