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Re:Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? by pjmlp on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:54PM (#15848340)
That so called advantage is how Niklaus Wirth did all his compilers, and many other language designers, it is not unique to C.
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Re:Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD? by bluGill on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:24AM (#15852238)
I didn't mean to imply it was unique to C, though in hindsight I did. This can be done in many languages.

I believe that Niklaus Wirth created his first self hosting implementation in a small subset of the language and expanded from there. Anyone thinking about doing this for a non-trivial language should consider following that example.

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