5 Jan
2012
5 Jan
'12
12:41 a.m.
On Jan 4, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Does anybody write compilers in assembly any more? Or
ever will, again?
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Well, yeah. All my Forth interpreters are written in assembler (the parts that aren't
written in Forth, anyway). Often it progresses to adding assembler macros to the
interpreter to compile, which then turns it into a Forth compiler.
Of course, at that point, you can self-host if you want to (a lot of Forth, Inc.'s
implementations used to do that, and I think Chuck Moore's ColorForth does something
similar).
- Dave