4 Nov
2010
4 Nov
'10
6:38 p.m.
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.
-- Lennart
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Andrew Coppin
Where the heck did all this stuff happen?! Can you actually run something like Haskell with mere kilobytes of RAM?