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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: High level language for writing Forth
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 23:41:41 -0700
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"Rudy Velthuis" <newsgroups@rvelthuis.de> writes:
> And I assume you (or someone else) had to start with assembler or C or
> whatever for the very low level stuff, unless you manually assembled
> the byte codes, or used another Forth to assemble yours.

Yes, that's the idea, you start with Forth and there's an assembler
written in Forth that's used during metacompilation, probably not at the
very beginning.  The rest is Forth.