[Haskell-cafe] Opinion about JHC

Donn Cave donn at avvanta.com
Wed Nov 11 14:12:24 EST 2009


Quoth Lennart Augustsson <lennart at augustsson.net>,

> Do you use jhc when you develop jhc?  I.e., does it compile itself.
> For me, this is the litmus test of when a compiler has become usable.
> I mean, if even the developers of a compiler don't use it themselves,
> why should anyone else? :)

Though that's exactly backwards for minority platforms, where the
compilers that compile themselves tend to be no use whatever.

	Donn Cave, donn at avvanta.com



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