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hello:

Just a curious question: PB is written by which language??

thanks

The compiler itself I believe is written in C and compiled with VS etc. The user-libs are written in a combination of C and ASM. The IDE is written in PB.

thanks!

lol... guess what language they are going to try to use ... the language that wrote this one .. lol I bet you
rational of non programmers... that language wrote this one so its better ..

srod is completely right (damn !).

Blue Steel wrote:lol... guess what language they are going to try to use ... the language that wrote this one .. lol I bet you
rational of non programmers... that language wrote this one so its better ..

And the initial 'bootstrapping' compiller would have been written is ASM which means that we are all daft for not using ASM!

Fred wrote:srod is completely right (damn !).

Right, in that case I am switching to C - it must be a better language to use!

Believe me, it's not .

Fred wrote:Believe me, it's not .

This lad needs no convincing of that.

What about the linux version ????.

ferty wrote:What about the linux version ????.

the same, but compiled with GCC

Out of sheer morbid curiosity, is the PB language and features at a point where it could become a self-hosting compiler?

I see no reason why not. But hey, so could pretty much any language, as long as it would direct access to files and is able to manipulate data on byte level

Can/could the PureBasic compiler output C code?

Nop.

Fred wrote:Nop.

It would be possible though? What amount of work would you reckon it'd be for you?