[Haskell-cafe] Re: "Haskell is a scripting language inspired by Python."

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 11/11/10 11:12 , Simon Marlow wrote:
> I bootstrapped GHC from the intermediate C files on a 640K PC around 1993 or
> so.  I don't remember exactly, but I think it might have worked, for some
> small value of "work".

If you used the right build environment, the compiler would have arranged
for overlays; the better ones even supported data overlays, but I imagine
that would have wreaked utter havoc with the runtime (its thunks would have
been wrapped in compiler-generated thunks that swapped the overlay space as
needed).

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