[Haskell-beginners] First version of GHC

Jonas Almström Duregård jonas.duregard at chalmers.se
Thu Aug 30 17:27:02 CEST 2012


Hi,

According to the GHC wikipedia page, a prototype was written in Lazy
ML. Whether this prototype was used to bootstrap the Haskell version
is not specified.

Regards,
Jonas

On 30 August 2012 16:13, Dániel Arató <exitconsole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm curious if the first implementation of GHC was in a different
> language before its current instance could be developed.
> If yes, what language was used?
> If not, what compiler was first used to compile GHC?
>
> Thank you,
> Daniel
>
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