"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] IMHO, writing your frontend in the same language it's intended > to compile causes it to be marginalized. It no longer becomes part > of the default bootstrap sequence and gets much less testing. [..]
Even if so, it may be worth spelling out some of the obvious benefits of writing a compiler in its own language: - genuine bootstrapping capability (to compile itself, being a source of realistic test coverage) - supplies "virtuous circle" motivation for improvement (speed, quality, ...), since it itself directly benefits - providing a concrete, educational systems application of the language (rather than saying "language X would be great for writing compilers, but by the way here is an X compiler written in Y.) - FChE
