I've heard that compilers are built by compiling themselves? How can they possibly do this, how would you get it to compile itself?
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Jump to Post>How can they possibly do this, how would you get it to compile itself?
- Write an initial compiler for your new language in an existing language (ex. the first Pascal compiler was written in Fortran).
- Write a bootstrapping compiler for your new langauge with that initial compiler.
- Your new …
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