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| What is the Simplest Programming Language? merosonox@yahoo.com (merosonox) (2003-01-04) |
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| What is the smallest self-hosting language? cdc@maxnet.co.nz (Carl Cerecke) (2003-01-25) |
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| From: | ed_davis2@yahoo.com (Ed Davis) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 29 Jan 2003 23:43:01 -0500 |
| Organization: | http://groups.google.com/ |
| References: | 03-01-013 03-01-106 03-01-133 |
| Keywords: | practice |
| Posted-Date: | 29 Jan 2003 23:43:01 EST |
Carl Cerecke <cdc@maxnet.co.nz> wrote in message news:03-01-133...
> I found myself wondering what the smallest self-hosting language would
> look like. In the same way that programmers find it fun to write the
> smallest self-reproducing programs, it might be fun to try and write
> the smallest self-hosting language.
A couple of interesting links regarding self-compiling or self-hosting
compilers:
Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/bcompiler.html
Very interesting. He starts from scratch and goes from there!
Also, a very good book on the web, "Symbolic Processing in Pascal" has
a interesting chapter called "Self-compiling Compilers":
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/philosophy/phimvt/sympas/s49hiteco.html
And finally:
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/otcc/
claims to be the "The smallest self compiling pseudo C compiler".
It is only 446 lines (only 1 statement per line), with no blank lines
or comments. Generates code for i386 on Linux.
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