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

Bernie Pope bjpop at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Mon Nov 12 01:47:50 EST 2007


On 12/11/2007, at 4:08 PM, Michael Vanier wrote:
>
> Bernie Pope wrote:
>>
>> If I remember correctly, the early versions of the Clean compiler  
>> were written in C. Then at some stage they re-wrote it in Clean.
>
> You could say they cleaned it up.

It was a dirty job, but now it is self cleaning.



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