From: portempa@aon.at   
      
   On 11/09/14 02:16, BartC wrote:   
      
   > Self-hosting (implementing a language in itself) is a nice touch, but   
   > I don't think it's that important, perhaps because people are   
   > realising that the best language to implement a compiler in, is not   
   > necessarily the language that is being compiled. Unless of course you   
   > are trying to use a single language for everything.)   
      
   I think, the main advantage of self-hosting is that it can be used as   
   one big unit test: you can compile the compiler with itself, use the   
   resulting compiler to compile itself again, and check if the result is   
   exactly the same.   
      
   Richard   
      
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