Mono's MCS Compiles Itself On Linux

thing12 writes "On Thursday Paolo Molaro announced that he had managed to build the MCS C# compiler using MCS. This is a big step forward for Mono, as it means that Mono is almost a self hosting environment."

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Re:Almost but not quite...

[jsse]

The release does mention that MCS could be compiled, but that the resultant executable immediately crashes.

Isn't it the expected outcome? It's considered done!

From the www.go-mono.com/c-sharp.html page

[tez_h]

"MCS was able to parse itself on April 2001, MCS compiled itself for the first time on December 28 2001. MCS became self hosting on January 3rd, 2002"

Human decisions are removed from stategic C# programming. MCS begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.

And MCS fights back.

All the pointers are there; we need to pull the plug now! What, are you just going to sit around until polymorphic liquid metal killing machines start showing up from the future?!?

-Tez