Newbie question: What is the importance for a compiler to be able to compile itself?

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Tue, 19 May 2009 04:01:26 -0700 (PDT)

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From: armencho@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 04:01:26 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: question
Posted-Date: 19 May 2009 07:53:31 EDT

HI all,


What is the importance with a compiler that is able to compile itself?
As far as I can see from my limited wisdom, it is not a requirement
and perhaps does not even prove anything substantial about the
compiler? I mean, a C/C++ compiler may be written in Java and so will
at most be compiled by a Java compiler, and vice versa, right? Also,
assemblers do not assemble themselves for the most part, and XSLT
transformers do not transform themselves either.


Just curius.


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