Orchid XP v7 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/09 14:36:
> I was just reading about some guy who's trying to compile the new 
> version of GHC on Solaris or something random like that. I found this 
> phrase deeply amusing:
> 
>   "...as soon as I can got out of the cycled happy dependency."
> 
> Cyclic happy dependency. That's deep! LOL.
> 
> (He is of course referring to the parser-generator known as Happy. 
> Apparently you need Happy to build GHC's language parser - but to build 
> Happy in the first place, you need to have GHC. Checkmate.)
The first C compiler was writen and compiled in C. Think about a chicken and egg 
paradoxe where the chicken IS the egg IS the chicken...

-- 
Alain
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At the feast of ego everyone leaves hungry.
	Bentley's House of Coffee and Tea, Tucson, AZ

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