Re: beagle compiler

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <mxIOg.12766$xQ1.3323@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
BluPhoenyx  <bluphoenyx@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> BluPhoenyx wrote:
>>> Paul Schlyter wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> You had Apple Pascal.
>>>>
>>>
>>> As I understand the term, there is ZBasic, HyperC and Aztec C each of 
>>> which offer a host environment and compiler. I rather liked ZBasic as 
>>> it attempted to emulate the BASIC command line features such as 
>>> calculations.
>> 
>> But which, if any, of these compilers/enviroments was self-hosted
>> (compiled using itself)?
> 
> I think this may only apply to HyperC but I couldn't say for sure. IIRC, 
> the doc's mention something about this. Since both C systems use byte 
> code interpreters I would not be surprised if both were self-hosted. 
> Without original source files we may never know.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike T.


Now - how does one get the very first version of a self-hosting compiler
to work?   :-)

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