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Re:How to implement a programming language in JavaScript by rtpg on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:11AM (#12000186)
I don't think this is true. Loads of FP languages are self-hosted.
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Re:How to implement a programming language in JavaScript by sjrd on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @04:26AM (#12000241)
Not only FP. Lots of languages are self-hosted. So actually most modern parsers are not written in C, since they are written in the language they parse.
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