Re: self-hosting, was Writing A Plain English Compiler

On 11/09/14 02:16, BartC wrote:


> Self-hosting (implementing a language in itself) is a nice touch, but
> I don't think it's that important, perhaps because people are
> realising that the best language to implement a compiler in, is not
> necessarily the language that is being compiled. Unless of course you
> are trying to use a single language for everything.)


I think, the main advantage of self-hosting is that it can be used as
one big unit test: you can compile the compiler with itself, use the
resulting compiler to compile itself again, and check if the result is
exactly the same.


Richard

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