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Welcome to bootstrapping![edit]This wiki is about bootstrapping. Building up compilers and interpreters and tools from nothing."Recipe for yogurt: Add yogurt to milk." - Anon.short sci fi story Coding Machines by Lawrence Kesteloot, January 2009Also see , which has pointers to a mailing list and IRC channel.Simple explanation: bootstrapping is about building a compiler using tools smaller than itself, as opposed to building a compiler using an already built version of itself. The problem with the second is: Where did that prebuilt binary come from?Current Topics[edit]Past Research[edit]bcompiler by Grimley EvansThis is a detailed log of the process of bootstrapping a series of languages up starting from just a hex assembler written using a hex editor.The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 by Long Tien Nguyen, Alan KayThis discusses methods of long term software preservation. Briefly about hardware that will not degrade over time, but the majority of the paper is about how to design a software …