قراءة لمدة 1 دقيقة Bootstrapping (compilers)

Bootstrapping is a computer science method to create a programming language, that is compiled with itself.
In most cases, a compiler is written in a language, where the compiler is rewritten for the language that is being compiled.

Most popular programming languages all follow a pattern of bootstrapped compilers.
Some include Java, C#, C, Rust, Ruby, Python, and more.

Process.

Bootstrapping usually has just a few stages:

Early Bootstrapping.

In 1962, Tim Hart, and Mike Levin wrote a compiler for LISP, inside of LISP.
They improved the compiler until it was capable of compiling itself.