Re: Compiler implementation language preference ?

Aaron Gray <aaronngray@gmail.com>
Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:54:18 -0800 (PST)

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From: Aaron Gray <aaronngray@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:54:18 -0800 (PST)
Organization: Compilers Central
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Posted-Date: 19 Dec 2018 15:12:32 EST
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On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 18:39:07 UTC+1, Michael Justice wrote:
> Is there any preference to writing a compiler in say c instead of say
> java, fortran, basic etc? ...


> [Mostly people use what they're used to, or in languages that are easy
> to bootstrap on the machines they want to use. IBM's Fortran H
> compiler was famously written in itself, but I wouldn't write a new
> compiler in Fortran because it doesn't have great data structuring or
> dynamic storage management. (Yes, I know that Fortran 2008 is a lot
> different from Fortran 66.) -John]


Pity there are no real compiler-compilers anymore, hint-hint, I am working on one to rule them all ;)


Aaron Gray
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Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist.
[Please don't say you've invented another UNCOL. -John]


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