12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
3:03 p.m.
On 11/11/2010 04:12 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
On 04/11/2010 22:38, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
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".
Wow! Your name must be Simon or... oh, wait... And to think that in 1993 I was still playing with BASIC. :-(