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Re: Best language for implementing compilers?

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From arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins)
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Subject Re: Best language for implementing compilers?
Date Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:48:03 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <19-02-012@comp.compilers>,
Our esteemed moderator wrote:
>[As I recall, Ratfor was bootstrapped using primitive versions of
>itself.  That used to be pretty common. -John]

The first ratfor was done in C using yacc and maybe lex. I suspect
that that was then used to write the ratfor-in-ratfor presented in
"Software Tools".
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Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com

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Best language for implementing compilers? "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org> - 2019-02-08 12:20 +0000
  Re: Best language for implementing compilers? Nala Ginrut <nalaginrut@gmail.com> - 2019-02-09 00:27 +0800
  Re: Best language for implementing compilers? George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2019-02-08 18:36 -0500
    Re: Best language for implementing compilers? Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-02-11 12:59 +0000
      Re: Best language for implementing compilers? drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2019-02-12 09:38 -0600
        Re: Best language for implementing compilers? drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2019-02-19 11:22 -0500
          Re: Best language for implementing compilers? arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) - 2019-02-20 11:48 +0000
      Re: Best language for implementing compilers? Kaz Kylheku <157-073-9834@kylheku.com> - 2019-02-12 16:45 +0000
      Re: Best language for implementing compilers? mertesthomas@gmail.com - 2019-03-09 01:47 -0500
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        Re: Best language for implementing compilers? Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net> - 2019-03-10 16:13 +0100
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  Re: Best language for implementing compilers? "Robin Vowels" <robin51@dodo.com.au> - 2019-02-09 19:58 +1100
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