In case of Borland's compilers, they're written mostly in Pascal.
And that includes their Pascal compilers...
They wrote a compiler stub that could compile a minimal subset of the intended language in machine code or Assembly, used that to compile a compiler that could do a bit more of the language, and so on until they had one that could compile the entire language specification.
When they had that they could use that compiler to compile compilers for other languages like C++ and C#.
Don't worry. u r not writing world's *FIRST* compiler. u can use VC++, Dev-C++, Borland, .Net, Java, or any other language that can process text and can call OS API's 2 write ur compiler.
Don't worry. u r not writing world's *FIRST* compiler. u can use VC++, Dev-C++, Borland, .Net, Java, or any other language that can process text and can call OS API's 2 write ur compiler.
Don't you think it is awkward to write reply for post over 2 years old where discussion died and problem is either solved or forgotten?
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