Re: [Haskell-cafe] Somewhat random history question - chicken and egg

Neil Mitchell wrote:

Hi

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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? :-. Well anyway, I didn't say it can't be done - I said it *looks* like it can't be done. ;-) (Seriously, how big is Hugs? It must be quite large...)