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+# Bootstrapping Zisp
+
+In my opinion, any serious programming language must have a serious
+bootstrapping strategy that addresses the "Trusting Trust" issue aka
+the Thompson Hack.  The easiest way to do that is making sure that
+your language can be bootstrapped from an existing language, which
+itself has some solution to the problem.
+
+Currently, I'm thinking of implementing Zisp in Zig.  (That's not the
+entire reason Zisp is called Zisp, and I might choose a different
+language eventually, and/or rename Zisp, but anyway.)
+
+Zig, in turn, will *hopefully* be possible to bootstrap from C in the
+future, or some language implemented in C.  For C, there are some ways
+to bootstrap it from scratch.
+
+*** WIP ***