> The VERY first C compiler was probably written in Assembly, or Pascal, or > something... If we were really paranoid, we'd keep the source for that > around. And the PDP/8 it ran on ;-) (Brian Kernighan has a great speech on > this topic, btw: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/)
I'm not paranoid, I'm trying to understand *exactly* how Mono was written. Although, if it was written in Assembly I'm going to run in fear! ;-) > Mono, the runtime wasn't written in C#, was it? If so, is it reasonable > to expect to boot-strap mono something like this? > > 1) build MCS using .NET on Windows > 2) build the runtime > 3) use the output of 2) to run the output of 1) to self-compile Yeah, that would be fine. I can't download blackbox binary to compile Mono and do a full security review. I'd like to see more core of core, and build it from there. If this isn't possible, perhaps one of the Mono developers could [sideline?] discuss with me what was done. I want the chicken *and* the egg! One or the other will not suffice! ;-) -- -bk _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
