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

Pertti Kellomaki <pertti.kellomaki@tut.fi>
Wed, 20 May 2009 09:44:11 +0300

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From: Pertti Kellomaki <pertti.kellomaki@tut.fi>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:44:11 +0300
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 09-05-080
Keywords: practice
Posted-Date: 20 May 2009 09:59:45 EDT
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In addition to the practical benefit of having the compiler
as a test case, there is also the cool factor. If I were
implementing a compiler for a cool new language, I would
much rather do it in the cool language rather than someone
else's really boring language.
--
Pertti


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