With what language was C# created

[Sam Sungshik Kong]

Hi!

This might be a stupid question.
With what language was C# compiler created?
I guess assembly.
Or C?

I am just curious.

Sam

[Ayende Rahien]

"Sam Sungshik Kong" <ss*@chol.net> wrote in message
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Hi!

This might be a stupid question.
With what language was C# compiler created?
I guess assembly.
Or C?

Probably C++, and then C#.

[emailallrise]

its made totally in the greatest language ever : C++ :)
And since u dont know which language it was made in, u also probably dont
kow that its open source. Check out its lovely source in Rotor
http://research.microsoft.com/collab...ope/rfp/rotor/.

Abubakar.

"Sam Sungshik Kong" <ss*@chol.net> wrote in message
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Hi!

This might be a stupid question.
With what language was C# compiler created?
I guess assembly.
Or C?

I am just curious.

Sam

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

I spoke with Anders Hjelsberg one time and he said with somewhat of a wry
smile that the C# compiler was actually written in C#.

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"Sam Sungshik Kong" <ss*@chol.net> wrote in message
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Hi!

This might be a stupid question.
With what language was C# compiler created?
I guess assembly.
Or C?

I am just curious.

Sam

[Ayende Rahien]

"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net> wrote in message
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I spoke with Anders Hjelsberg one time and he said with somewhat of a wry
smile that the C# compiler was actually written in C#.

ISTR a story I've heard once about the Pascal compiler (the first one) which
was written on paper, and then the author run the compiler through the
compiler (in its head) to compile.

[William Stacey]

Sort of a Chicken and Egg problem isn't it. When you think about it, it
does not really matter. The language is just a specification. So you have
a bunch of text in a file that needs to get compiled into IL. So if you had
nothing better to do, I guess you could write a C# compiler in Perl or even
DOS batch language to output the IL. Is the cs compiler written in C#?
Don't know for sure, but some have suggested it is. Cheers!

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"Sam Sungshik Kong" <ss*@chol.net> wrote in message
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Hi!

This might be a stupid question.
With what language was C# compiler created?
I guess assembly.
Or C?

I am just curious.

Sam

[Daisy]

"William Stacey" <st***********@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Is the cs compiler written in C#?
Don't know for sure, but some have suggested it is. Cheers!

If it was, how did they compile it? 0:-)
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[Gianluca Varenni]

Hi.

I'm quite sure that the C# compiler is written in C++ (it's unmanaged code,
however). In particular, if you go to the folder that contains the csc.exe
executable, you will find that the main part of the compiler is in the
unmanaged DLL cscomp.dll. In the same folder you will find a managed wrapper
for cscomp.dll, which is called cscompmgd.dll, that contains some types of
the Microsoft.CSharp namespace.

However, it's true that some compilers are written in the same language they
compile. Apart from the C/C++ compilers (quite obviously) the Garden Point
Component Pascal compiler (by John Gough), for example, is written in
Component Pascal.

Have a nice day
GV

"Ayende Rahien" <Ay****@no.spam> wrote in message
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"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net> wrote in message
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I spoke with Anders Hjelsberg one time and he said with somewhat of a wry smile that the C# compiler was actually written in C#.
ISTR a story I've heard once about the Pascal compiler (the first one)

which was written on paper, and then the author run the compiler through the
compiler (in its head) to compile.

[Daniel O'Connell]

IIRC, the MS C# compiler was written in C++(isn't there an example CSC in
rotor?), probably based off of a grammer run through bison or something. The
Mono C# compiler(and most of mono itself) is written in C#, originally using
MS's C# compiler, however it compiles itself now.
Future C# compilers can easily be writtenin C#(it's unlikely MS will switch
though), though for new languages targetting the framework, C# seems ideal.

"Sam Sungshik Kong" <ss*@chol.net> wrote in message
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Hi!

This might be a stupid question.
With what language was C# compiler created?
I guess assembly.
Or C?

I am just curious.

Sam

[Eric Gunnerson [MS]]

The Visual C# compiler is written in C++. We could have written it in C#,
bootstrapping our way up, but because that is much more time consuming and
difficult, we elected to stick with C++. We may revisit that in the future.

The JScript compiler is written in C#.

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"Sam Sungshik Kong" <ss*@chol.net> wrote in message
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Hi!

This might be a stupid question.
With what language was C# compiler created?
I guess assembly.
Or C?

I am just curious.

Sam

[Leon Lambert]

The C# compiler for the Mono project is written in C# so why couldn't
Microsoft's be written in C#. The .Net frameworks class
System.Reflection.Emit handles most of the issues for creating the IL code.

Gianluca Varenni wrote:

Hi.

I'm quite sure that the C# compiler is written in C++ (it's unmanaged code,
however). In particular, if you go to the folder that contains the csc.exe
executable, you will find that the main part of the compiler is in the
unmanaged DLL cscomp.dll. In the same folder you will find a managed wrapper
for cscomp.dll, which is called cscompmgd.dll, that contains some types of
the Microsoft.CSharp namespace.

However, it's true that some compilers are written in the same language they
compile. Apart from the C/C++ compilers (quite obviously) the Garden Point
Component Pascal compiler (by John Gough), for example, is written in
Component Pascal.

Have a nice day
GV

"Ayende Rahien" <Ay****@no.spam> wrote in message
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"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net> wrote in message
news:Ob****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl.. .

I spoke with Anders Hjelsberg one time and he said with somewhat of a
wry
smile that the C# compiler was actually written in C#.

ISTR a story I've heard once about the Pascal compiler (the first one)

which

was written on paper, and then the author run the compiler through the
compiler (in its head) to compile.

[Daniel O'Connell]

Well, the mono compiler was originally compiled with the MS compiler(IIRC),
what exactly would they compile css with?(or for that matter,
System.Reflection.Emit...that may not be written in C++ either, I don't know
off hand).
"Leon Lambert" <la******@inil.com> wrote in message
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The C# compiler for the Mono project is written in C# so why couldn't
Microsoft's be written in C#. The .Net frameworks class
System.Reflection.Emit handles most of the issues for creating the IL code.
Gianluca Varenni wrote:

Hi.

I'm quite sure that the C# compiler is written in C++ (it's unmanaged code, however). In particular, if you go to the folder that contains the csc.exe executable, you will find that the main part of the compiler is in the
unmanaged DLL cscomp.dll. In the same folder you will find a managed wrapper for cscomp.dll, which is called cscompmgd.dll, that contains some types of the Microsoft.CSharp namespace.

However, it's true that some compilers are written in the same language they compile. Apart from the C/C++ compilers (quite obviously) the Garden Point Component Pascal compiler (by John Gough), for example, is written in
Component Pascal.

Have a nice day
GV

"Ayende Rahien" <Ay****@no.spam> wrote in message
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"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net> wrote in message
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I spoke with Anders Hjelsberg one time and he said with somewhat of a

wry

smile that the C# compiler was actually written in C#.

ISTR a story I've heard once about the Pascal compiler (the first one)

which

was written on paper, and then the author run the compiler through the
compiler (in its head) to compile.

[Gianluca Varenni]

"Leon Lambert" <la******@inil.com> wrote in message
news:um**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

The C# compiler for the Mono project is written in C# so why couldn't
Microsoft's be written in C#. The .Net frameworks class
System.Reflection.Emit handles most of the issues for creating the IL code.

Well, I haven't said "it's not possible to create a C# compiler in C#". I
knew that the mono C# compiler is written in C#.
I only pointed out that at the moment the C# compiler from Microsoft is
written in C++.

Have a nice day
GV


Gianluca Varenni wrote:

Hi.

I'm quite sure that the C# compiler is written in C++ (it's unmanaged code, however). In particular, if you go to the folder that contains the csc.exe executable, you will find that the main part of the compiler is in the
unmanaged DLL cscomp.dll. In the same folder you will find a managed wrapper for cscomp.dll, which is called cscompmgd.dll, that contains some types of the Microsoft.CSharp namespace.

However, it's true that some compilers are written in the same language they compile. Apart from the C/C++ compilers (quite obviously) the Garden Point Component Pascal compiler (by John Gough), for example, is written in
Component Pascal.

Have a nice day
GV

"Ayende Rahien" <Ay****@no.spam> wrote in message
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"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net> wrote in message
news:Ob****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl.. .

I spoke with Anders Hjelsberg one time and he said with somewhat of a

wry

smile that the C# compiler was actually written in C#.

ISTR a story I've heard once about the Pascal compiler (the first one)

which

was written on paper, and then the author run the compiler through the
compiler (in its head) to compile.

[William Stacey]

Maybe an in-house tool they used early on.

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"William Stacey" <st***********@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Is the cs compiler written in C#?
Don't know for sure, but some have suggested it is. Cheers!

If it was, how did they compile it? 0:-)
--
Daisy The Cow