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

[Bernie Pope]

On 12/11/2007, at 4:32 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:

> 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.

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.

Cheers,
Bernie.