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I'm glad a language other than Lisp can finally eat it's own tail.


I enjoy Lisp chauvinism as much as anyone but come on.

  Self-hosting languages include Lisp, Forth, Pascal, C,
  Modula-2, Oberon, Smalltalk, OCaml, FASM, Python, Scala,
  Haskell and BASIC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting And according to: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22self+hosting+compiler%22

http://live.gnome.org/Vala http://www.freebasic.net/index.php

Apparently Mono is self hosting (i.e. the compiler is written in C#), and I'm sure there's many other examples.

Or maybe I missed a joke you were making...


I'm incredibly impressed that you didn't immediately close the page after seeing that pun.




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