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timothy
on from the not-the-same-as-self-flagellation dept.
Bob Smith writes: "Miguel just commited the last patch nessisary to get Mono's C# compiler to compile itself. After 7 odd months, MCS is now self hosting."jbarn adds: "Mono-list email is here."
Ahhh the old chicken and egg problem. (Compiler version)
The first Pascal compilers (and many other compilers) where actually written in their own language. Niklaus Wirth (and his staff) simply "executed" the program by hand/on paper and in that way they compiled the first compiler written in the language itself.
After that it becomes easier, you just need to make sure that you can compile the new version of compiler with the old one.
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Ahhh the old chicken and egg problem. (Compiler version)
The first Pascal compilers (and many other compilers) where actually written in their own language. Niklaus Wirth (and his staff) simply "executed" the program by hand/on paper and in that way they compiled the first compiler written in the language itself.
After that it becomes easier, you just need to make sure that you can compile the new version of compiler with the old one.