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| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? damian.thomas@unisys.com (Damian Thomas) (2008-04-18) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) (2008-04-18) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) (2008-04-18) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl) (2008-04-18) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? cdb@nullstone.com (Christopher Glaeser) (2008-04-19) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? torbenm@app-4.diku.dk (2008-04-21) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? DrDiettrich1@aol.com (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2008-04-21) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? pocm@soton.ac.uk (2008-04-22) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? gah@ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) (2008-04-21) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? spencer@panix.com (David Spencer) (2008-04-22) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? DrDiettrich1@aol.com (Hans-Peter Diettrich) (2008-04-22) |
| Re: Bootstraping compilers ? gah@ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) (2008-04-23) |
| From: | Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:22:33 +0200 |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| References: | 08-04-059 08-04-078 |
| Keywords: | design, practice, comment |
| Posted-Date: | 22 Apr 2008 10:19:00 EDT |
Torben Fgidius Mogensen wrote:
[Many reasonable arguments snipped]
Apart from the ability of a language, to write compilers in it, reusable
code or libraries for compilers suggest the use of a sufficiently
general or specialized language.
> [But it was so cool that they wrote Fortran H in itself. -John]
It could be a chance to define the semantics of a language in terms of
the compiler, written in that language. Provided that the compiler is
sufficiently complex, so that it uses all features of that language...
DoDi
[I doubt there was a whole lot of floating arithmetic in the H compiler.
At the time it made sense since the alternative was to write the whole
thing in assembler. -John]
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