[Haskell-cafe] Re: "Haskell is a scripting language inspired by Python."

On 04/11/2010 22:38, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

It happened at various universities around the world. Look at the original Haskell committee and you'll get a good idea where.

The smallest Haskell I know of is Gofer/Hugs; it originally ran on a 640k PCs. Before that languages like SASL and KRC ran on PDP-11 with 64k memory. None of these had a compiler that was bootstrapped, but I had a simple functional language that compiled itself and ran in 64K. The smallest bootstrapped Haskell compiler is NHC which (I think) runs in a few MB.

I bootstrapped GHC from the intermediate C files on a 640K PC around 1993 or so. I don't remember exactly, but I think it might have worked, for some small value of "work". Cheers, Simon