Timeline for What does it mean that "language A is written in language B"?
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| Jan 15, 2013 at 11:01 | vote | accept | Songo | ||
| Jan 15, 2013 at 11:01 | vote | accept | Songo | ||
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| Nov 21, 2012 at 2:36 | comment | added | Ross Patterson | @ugoren There were plenty of C compilers written in assembly. Not so much this century, though. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 19:32 | comment | added | ugoren | @OldCurmudgeon, and C is entirely written in C (I doubt if there's any C compiler not written in C, except K&R's first). | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 17:16 | answer | added | KeithS | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 17:02 | comment | added | TMN | s/written/implemented/ and it's much clearer. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 16:32 | answer | added | Kaz | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 16:28 | comment | added | Kaz | PHP "per se", is not a formal definition. It is a C program. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 16:26 | comment | added | OldCurmudgeon | Interestingly BCPL was mostly written in BCPL | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 13:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/270874899516649472 | ||
| Nov 20, 2012 at 12:17 | answer | added | Michael Borgwardt | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:59 | answer | added | Bryan Oakley | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:41 | comment | added | user281377 | Strictly speaking, "PHP has been written in C" is wrong. A language is per se a formal definition, therefore it isn't written in another programmer language (but rather in English); only the compiler, interpreter and/or library can be written in C, C++ or whatever. In practice, for many languages there is one dominant compiler or interpreter, and the distinction between language definition and implementation isn't made. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:41 | answer | added | yannis | timeline score: 10 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:40 | answer | added | Martijn Pieters | timeline score: 30 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:36 | answer | added | thorsten müller | timeline score: 34 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:31 | history | asked | Songo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |