From: nullcompiler@gmail.com   
      
   Is there any preference to writing a compiler in say c instead of say   
   java, fortran, basic etc? I ask cause i see many of the projects using   
   either c or c++ instead of other programming languages.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   nullCompiler   
   [Mostly people use what they're used to, or in languages that are easy   
   to bootstrap on the machines they want to use.  IBM's Fortran H   
   compiler was famously written in itself, but I wouldn't write a new   
   compiler in Fortran because it doesn't have great data structuring or   
   dynamic storage management.  (Yes, I know that Fortran 2008 is a lot   
   different from Fortran 66.) -John]   
      
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