12 Nov
2007
12 Nov
'07
12:08 a.m.
Bernie Pope wrote:
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.
You could say they cleaned it up. Mike