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Re:Notes on Programming in C (1989) by overgard on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @03:09PM (#15403472)
Why would anyone want to run C in an interpreter though? Seems kinda pointless other than for educational purposes. I guess compiled/interpreted is arbitrary, but on a practical level most languages are one or the other (im not going to count JIT as compiled)
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Re:Notes on Programming in C (1989) by imtringued on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:14PM (#15404148)
If you have a C compiler written in C and you want to bootstrap it from assembly then you need either a compiler or an interpreter. Writing a simple interpreter in assembly is far easier.
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