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Best route for new language to be self-hostingDoes any particular language stand out above the crowd to be a host in which to develop general purpose languages? I am interested because of the development of Perl6 using Haskell as a host by Autrijus (See pugs.) I expect that any of OCaml, Haskell, Scheme or Lisp would be better than using C <grin> to develop a host, but is one of those (or something else entirely) likely to be significantly better than anything else? I expect that a good host language:
I hope this is the perfect forum to get an answer to this personally vexing question! Morris PS: For those that wonder at the need for self-hosting (rather than just keep another language under the hood):
PPS: I do think the world needs another language! Of course I am preaching to the converted here. By Morris Johns at 2005-05-07 01:22 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 13253 reads
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