Hi > > "...if GHC is written in Haskell, how the heck did they compile GHC in > > the first place?"
GHC was not the first Haskell compiler, hbc was the main compiler at some point, so I suspect they used hbc. There was also lazy ML which I suspect was used to bootstrap hbc - but I'm not sure of the details. > ... and what happens, if they add a new feature, use it in the compiler > itself, and then it turns out, that the implementation of the new feature > was buggy? GHC can be compiled with GHC 5.0 (or something around there). If they add a new feature, they don't use it in GHC for years and years. Thanks Neil _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
