[Haskell-cafe] New in haskell for old-timers?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:33, Mats Rauhala <mats.rauhala at gmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't realize asking how long it's been for him, but he mentioned
> about new fronts in optimizing compilers and specifically mentioned a
> compiler that could compile to legible C. I've been following Haskell

only for a couple of years, so my intuition tells me that he means
> `-fvia-c`, and I mentioned to him that it's about to be deprecated and
> replaced with the llvm back-end. I also mentioned hackage, but he hadn't
> heard of it.
>

The legible C thing is probably jhc ( http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/ ).
 It's GHC's *illegible* registerized C that is being phased out; the
slightly-more-legible ANSI C mode used for porting is staying, though.

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