From: arnold@skeeve.com   
      
   In article <19-02-012@comp.compilers>,   
   Our esteemed moderator wrote:   
   >[As I recall, Ratfor was bootstrapped using primitive versions of   
   >itself.  That used to be pretty common. -John]   
      
   The first ratfor was done in C using yacc and maybe lex. I suspect   
   that that was then used to write the ratfor-in-ratfor presented in   
   "Software Tools".   
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   Aharon (Arnold) Robbins 		arnold AT skeeve DOT com   
      
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