Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Michael Justice Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Compiler implementation language preference ? Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 04:58:14 -0400 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 14 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <18-05-009@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="2768"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: practice Posted-Date: 22 May 2018 13:39:05 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2096 Is there any preference to writing a compiler in say c instead of say java, fortran, basic etc? I ask cause i see many of the projects using either c or c++ instead of other programming languages. Sincerely, nullCompiler [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]