Re: What's the word for...

tchannon@black.demon.co.uk (Tim Channon)
Sun, 20 Feb 1994 03:52:00 GMT

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From: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk (Tim Channon)
Keywords: theory
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 94-02-106
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 03:52:00 GMT

> Could someone pleace tell me what the word is for
> a language which can be written in itself.


There is the term Meta-compiler which I first came across in connection
with Forth where the language was altered by itself usually to produce a
different version of itself, perhaps a cross version. Difficult to
understand.


Applying the term to for example C written in C is not quite the same
thing.


'metalanguage' is a normal word and I leave it to the reader...


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