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adbge on Dec 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Integers Should Work (In Systems Programming L...

Writing an entire operating system without touching a low-level language is largely the stuff of fantasy. High-level languages are, after all, built on top of low-level languages.

rayiner on Dec 5, 2011 [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine

The C compiler in that machine was written in Lisp. :)

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