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From: biep@cs.vu.nl (J. A. "Biep" Durieux)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Using C to describe itself
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 09:07:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 13 09:07:23 1987
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In article <1286@arthur.cs.purdue.edu>, sjc@arthur.cs.purdue.edu (Steve Chapin) writes:
> ... C compilers ...

In article <764@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
> ... C compilers ...

Shouldn't this whole discussion become a lot more useful if we started to
talk about (metacircular) interpreters instead of compilers to any non-C
goal language?

<The other possibility would be a C-to-C compiler, of course :-) >


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