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

[Neil Mitchell]

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? :-.

Really :-)

> (Seriously, how big is Hugs? It must be quite large...)

56111 lines, with an additional 5917 for the WinHugs bit.

Thanks

Neil