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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: doing exercises for starting forth, kinda discouraging, some are easy and some seem text not prepare me for....
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Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
> I don't really understand why this is a goal.  If your Forth could
> build itself, why would you want to build it on some other Forth?  

To solve the chicken-vs-egg problem, I would have thought.

> I dont think I've ever heard of a Forth in Forth that builds itself on
> *any* Forth.

I remember thinking the cross-compiling proposal for ANS Forth would
make this a lot easier.