OpenEuphoria

RE: Eu 2.4 vs Eu 2.5

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Feb 15, 2004
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Derek Parnell wrote:
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> > 
> > BTW: I'm very impressed by a Euphoria interpreter/translator
> > written in Euphoria itself.
> > It somehow reminds me of Baron Munchhausen, pulling himself
> > from the ocean by his own bootstraps. 
> > 
> >    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchhausen
> > 
> 
> I believe that's where the computer term "bootstrapping" came from.
> 
> -- 
> Derek

Indeed; here's an interesting explanation of the term:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/bootstrap

Although I can't seem to find any backing info at the moment, I believe 
that MS wrote (and abandoned) a QuickBasic interpreter and I think maybe 
a compilier for Macintosh in the early days (128K - Motorola 68000) that 
was written in QuickBasic itself...

I do know it exists, anyway.  I wonder if my old Mac will still fire 
up...
-- Brian