On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:07:29AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote: > 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.
Hbc didn't need to be bootstrapped because it isn't written in Haskell - it's written in Lazy ML. Lazy ML would need to be bootstrapped, but since it has (almost?) the same syntax as Standard ML, I suspect the first versions of lml were written in SML. (Can you clarify, L. Augustsson?) Stefan
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