On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 01-Apr-1998, S. Alexander Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Not having written a compiler before, this may be an ignorant question,
> > but how come you write these Haskell compilers/interpreters in C/C++
> > rather than bootstrapping from prior versions of Haskell itself?
>
> Gofer (and hence Hugs) was written in C for efficiency.
>
> ghc was written in Haskell, and hence is big, fat, and slow.
> Please correct me if I am wrong ;-)
I realize this was written in good humor, but doesn't it serve as an
indictment of Haskell as a general purpose language? I believe the Gnu
compilers are bootstrapped.
-Alex-
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