Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And C is the only language that is expected to bootstrap > itself.[1]
<snipped to footnote> > [1] - There are a few exceptions. ghc is an Haskell compiler that is the > only tool capable of compiling its own Haskell code. The GNU Ada compiler > is written in Ada. There's also a Dylan compiler written in Dylan, but > luckily there's also a Dylan interpreter written in C that can > compile it. I cannot sit silent: obviously you are forgetting Lisp Machines that ran Lisp interpreters written in Lisp. ;-) Now, going backwards in time from the beginning of the UNIX epoche, to the two oldest high level languages that are still in use today: Fortran and Lisp. Any self-respecting Lisp/Scheme book shows how to write a Lisp engine in Lisp. Was there ever a Fortran compiler written in Fortran? The only page that mentions something like that in passing is http://www.nersc.gov/~deboni/Computer.history/Mendicino.html. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
