Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!adore2!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Aaron Gray Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Compiler implementation language preference ? Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:54:18 -0800 (PST) Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 18 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <18-12-007@comp.compilers> References: <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="15887"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: tools Posted-Date: 19 Dec 2018 15:12:32 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com In-Reply-To: <18-05-009@comp.compilers> Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2135 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 --- Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher, Information Theorist, and amateur computer scientist. [Please don't say you've invented another UNCOL. -John]