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Old 01-26-2018, 04:42 AM   #30
alcedo
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Originally Posted by mdp View Post
So you used C to compile Perl?
No, not quite. The canonical and only so far Perl6 implementation is called rakudo.
rakudo is written in a subset of perl6 called nqp, which is written in moar, a virtual machine.
Which probably is written in C. Compiling a compiler has stages, and the final is the compiler
compiling itself. Something like that. I'm not really into it yet.
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