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[Paulo Pinto]

Ah ok, I thought you were starting a "C above all" thread. :)

Am 02.12.2011 21:51, schrieb Timon Gehr:
> On 12/02/2011 09:45 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> Am 02.12.2011 18:49, schrieb Timon Gehr:
>>> On 12/02/2011 02:09 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>>> The GHC compiler is written in Haskell, which is the reference
>>>> implementation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> GHC has long been completely dependent on a C compiler though, because
>>> it could only compile the Haskell code to C and then invoked GCC afaik.
>>
>> So what?
>>
>
> Nothing, just trivia.
>
>> Many compiler implementors use a target language instead of pure native
>> code generation to spare effort developing a proper compiler backend.
>>
>> Current GHC versions compile directly to native code, even though you
>> can still use the old C code generation backend.
>
> I know.