Re: self-executing "language"?

Ray Arachelian (sunder@brainlink.com)
Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:51:34 -0400

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Paul H. Merrill wrote:
>
> Even with an interpretive language the source code is just the "recipe"
> for the interpreter to follow, not the actual controller of the
> hardware.

So feed the source code of the C interpreter to itself. You still need to
compile the original C interpreter, but once built, it can interpret itself.
:) (Shades of Godel, Escher, & Bach.. heheh...)

But yeah, even then, your point still stands...

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