Re: Bootstraping compilers ?

Torben Fgidius Mogensen wrote:

[Many reasonable arguments snipped]

Apart from the ability of a language, to write compilers in it, reusable
code or libraries for compilers suggest the use of a sufficiently
general or specialized language.

> [But it was so cool that they wrote Fortran H in itself. -John]

It could be a chance to define the semantics of a language in terms of
the compiler, written in that language. Provided that the compiler is
sufficiently complex, so that it uses all features of that language...

DoDi
[I doubt there was a whole lot of floating arithmetic in the H compiler.
At the time it made sense since the alternative was to write the whole
thing in assembler. -John]