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A comment on Fancy: first bootstrapped language targeting Rubinius VM other than Ruby.

Re:Fancy: first bootstrapped language targeting Rubinius VM ... by ejdyksen on Thursday February 24, 2011 @01:05AM (#2257101)
I think the more accurate term is self-hosting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting

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Re:Fancy: first bootstrapped language targeting Rubinius VM ... by tianyicui on Thursday February 24, 2011 @01:17AM (#2257133)
Bootstrapping is accurate and used in many compiler related texts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)
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