I enjoy Lisp chauvinism as much as anyone but come on. Self-hosting languages include Lisp, Forth, Pascal, C, Modula-2, Oberon, Smalltalk, OCaml, FASM, Pyt

I enjoy Lisp chauvinism as much as anyone but come on. Self-hosting languages include Lisp, Forth, Pascal, C, Modula-2, Oberon, Smalltalk, OCaml, FASM, Python, Scala, Haskell and BASIC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting And according to: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22self+hosting+compiler%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22self+hosting+compiler%22 http://live.gnome.org/Vala http://live.gnome.org/Vala http://www.freebasic.net/index.php http://www.freebasic.net/index.php Apparently Mono is self hosting (i.e. the compiler is written in C#), and I'm sure there's many other examples. Or maybe I missed a joke you were making...