Ultra Super Mega Special Topic Research - Bootstrapping - Jake

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For this special topic, please provide a 1 page summary of what you find about bootstrapping, metacompilers, or self-hosting compilation. You can go as light or as deep as you want, but please include:

• 2 toy examples / 1 paragraph user stories. 1 to model the thought process from end to end. and another with a fill-in-the-blank for the group you lead to try and think about.
• as you research and build your summary, please write down what questions you have.
  • for the questions you are able to answer by the end, consider providing the questions to your group.

Consider starting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)#List_of_languages_having_self-hosting_compilers

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like me to review anything.

[mpahrens]

Also this is fun: https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/As_a_library

[mpahrens]

@MatthewDHarrison @elif01 "@"ing you both into this issue because you volunteered to lead a group on wednesday. Feel free to take this any direction you like or ask me if you need resources. Some resources are on the main page of the reading wiki.