On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Ian Grant <ian.a.n.gr...@googlemail.com> wrote: > [we] will be able to implement a C compiler in Microsoft Word BASIC, or in > COBOL, and that will be capable of compiling GCC, if we had a year or > so to wait while it does it ...
This is not true. Word BASIC or COBOL could easily write out an executable binary defined by an abstract formal description in a text file. It would take a while, but the binary would be able to compile GCC pretty quickly.
