Re: What's the word for...

lloyd@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Lloyd Allison)
Thu, 24 Feb 1994 04:11:46 GMT

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From: lloyd@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Lloyd Allison)
Keywords: theory
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
References: 94-02-106 94-02-160
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 04:11:46 GMT

CNS-ksf-+Jordan T.J. (tjj@netnews.summit.novell.com) wrote:
: Could someone please tell me what the word is for a language
: which can be written in itself?


weberwu@tfh-berlin.de (Prof_Weber-Wulff) writes:
>called it a bootstrapable language, as the process of constructing a
>compiler for a language in the language is called bootstrapping.


Is `reflexive' used for this, or for something different ?
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