https://github.com/catseye/shelta

A language with a very small, self-hosted compiler for MS-DOS
https://github.com/catseye/shelta

esolang ms-dos self-hosted

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A language with a very small, self-hosted compiler for MS-DOS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/catseye/shelta
• Owner: catseye
• Created: 2012-06-20T03:32:54.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-08-19T14:58:52.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-12T22:20:41.185Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: esolang, ms-dos, self-hosted
• Language: Assembly
• Homepage: http://catseye.tc/node/Shelta
• Size: 188 KB
• Stars: 11
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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Shelta

======

Shelta is a minimal Forth-like language.  It has barely any semantics of its

own; it relies on inline machine code to write anything resembling an actual

program in it.

In the spirit of compilers for languages such as FALSE and brainfuck, a

Shelta-to-8086 compiler was implemented (with some help from Ben Olmstead) as

an MS-DOS `.COM` executable containing less than 512 bytes of 80286 machine

code.

What's more, it has also been bootstrapped — that is to say, a Shelta compiler

was written in Shelta, which was compiled with the original compiler, and then

compiled again with the resulting compiler, producing a wholly self-hosted

executable.

For more information, see the files in the `doc` directory of this distribution.