On 12/11/2007, at 4:32 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

Hi

bear no resemblence to any machine-level constructs, and it "seems"
unthinkable that you could possibly write such a compiler in anything
but Haskell itself.


Hugs is written in C.


Really? :-.

Really :-)

(Seriously, how big is Hugs? It must be quite large...)

56111 lines, with an additional 5917 for the WinHugs bit.

If I remember correctly, the early versions of the Clean compiler were written in C. Then at some stage they re-wrote it in Clean.

Cheers,
Bernie.
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