Koen Claessen
I know of nobody who is starting to implement a Haskell compiler from scratch. What do people think: is this a worrying situation?
Only if the remaining tools are insufficient, IMHO. It is questionable whether the Haskell community is large enough to support the development and maintenance of three compilers and two interpreters. Popular languages like Python and Perl have far fewer implementations, and even C and C++ only really have GCC in the free software world. It's good to have multiple tools, but at least for me, I can't seem to get around to try out tools for the sake of doing it, so I'm stuck on GHC, since it was the first I ran across, and it does an adequate (actually great, but adequate is sufficient) job of it. It'd be good if left-behind tools were using a BSD(-like) licence, in the event that anybody - commercial or otherwise - who wanted to pick them up again, were free to do so. -kzm -- I'm I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants