You are braver than me, but I must confess I've had the same desire.
Here's a great place to start:
Simon Peyton Jones, David Lester, Implementing functional languages: a tutorial
http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/Papers/pj-lester-book/
It's long, (sort of old) and written in Miranda (TM of Research Ltd.)
which is sort of a precursor to Haskell, but it should get you a lot
closer to understanding how lazy, pure functional languages work
inside.
You could also learn from the code and documentation of the various
implementations of Haskell: GHC, hugs, nhc, and
- jhc (http://repetae.net/john/computer/jhc/)
- YHC (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/yhc/) (an nhc derivatibe)
including a portable bytecode compiler
Or you could use GHC and hs-plugins to sort of embed a haskell
compiler into any Haskell program.
Jared.
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On 12/20/05, Creighton Hogg
Hi guys, I was wondering where I should get started in learing about how to implement a haskell compiler? Are there papers, wiki entries, or other things people think would be helpful or should I just start looking at the source of one of the compilers? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe