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as there is a project aiming to "bootstrap the world" https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/stage0/ and they hand wrote a FORTH http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/stage0.git/tree/stage2/f... and a compacting garbage collecting lisp http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/stage0.git/tree/stage2/l...

and their opinion was that it was easier to do the lisp than it was to do the FORTH. Although right now they are trying to improve their C Compiler prototype https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet before they convert it to assembly