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In principle, if stuck on a desert island, we all could recreate our tools, right?

(stuck, w/plenty of hardware and electricity, that is)

[falcolas]

Whole rant... responding to the wrong comment.

Anyways. Could we re-create our programming tools? Eventually. So long as we have a computer and a whole lot of time. Bootstrapping a programming language to create an operating system's going to be a real bear though.

Now then, making those tools efficient (namely optimizing compilers) and safe is going to take a whole lot of time and brainpower.