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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) |
| Re: What is the smallest self-hosting language? qsmgmt@earthlink.net (Alan Lehotsky) (2003-01-26) |
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| Re: What is the smallest self-hosting language? peter.r.wilson@boeing.com (Peter Wilson) (2003-02-11) |
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| From: | alexc@world.std.com (Alex Colvin) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | 6 Feb 2003 00:15:40 -0500 |
| Organization: | The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA |
| References: | 03-01-013 03-01-106 03-01-133 03-01-175 |
| Keywords: | practice, history |
| Posted-Date: | 06 Feb 2003 00:15:39 EST |
>> 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.
An old candidate might be Calvin Mooers' TRAC language.
http://www.tracfoundation.org/
I believe it was the first language whose name was trademarked.
--
mac the naïf
[Fortran was a trademark, but IBM gave it up. I wrote a lot of Trac in my
youth and don't ever recall seeing Trac in Trac, although it wouldn't be
very hard. -John]
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