BluPhoenyx 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.
Actually, it would be easy enough to take a look at the compiler and see if it is M/L or interpretive code. Although using the same runtime doesn't guarantee that it was self-hosted, it's a strong implication. -michael New, faster SUDOKU v2.0 solver for Apple II's! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."