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Nah, I wrote a variant on Standard ML, it was written in Java.
Very few languages are written from the bits up, so to speak. Only back in the day would you have to start from assembly (or even pure machine) code.
In fact, a significant milestone in the maturity of a computer language is when it is powerful enough to write a compiler or interpreter for itself.
e.g. - You can write a Java compiler in Java.
This is a very simple, and not particularly mind bending, example of the kind of stuff that goes on the whole time inside computer science. Beautiful.