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See booting on the computers.
Bootstrapping can also refer to the development of successively more complex programming environments. The simplest environment will be, perhaps, a very basic text editor (e.g. ed?) and an assembler. Using these tools, one can write a more complex text editor, and a simple compiler for a higher-level language. and so on, until one can have a graphical IDE and an extremely high-level programming language.
Syntactic bootstrapping is the idea that children use syntactic knowledge they have developed to help learn what words mean. semantics builds on top of syntax....
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