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

[Andrew Coppin]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
>
>   
>> 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...)