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Mono C# Compiler Compiles Itself

Posted by 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."

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  1. Re:a dumb question by Yokaze · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It doesn't rely on another (namely the MS C#-compiler) anymore.

    The C#-Compiler is written in C#, therefor requires a C#-Compiler.

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  2. Re:a dumb question by puetzk · · Score: 2, Redundant

    except that perl's not compiled :-) But yes, I think a perl interpreter in perl would be very easy.

    open FILE,";
    eval $code;

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