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[Paulo Pinto]

The GHC compiler is written in Haskell, which is the reference implementation.

Patrick Stewart Wrote:

> Russel Winder Wrote:
> 
> | CPython is written in C but PyPy is written in RPython (*).  PyPy is
> | about 5 times faster than CPython on most of the performance benchmarks
> | CPython has.
> 
> CPython is the main implementation and first Python that cameo out. It is still bleeding edge. I think that counts as a big win for C.
> 
> | Wasn't the latest Perl initially written in Haskell?
> 
> And Haskell in C?
> 
> Besides, any compiler capable of bootstrapping itself has to be written in some other language at the beginning.
> 
> It just makes me laugh when I see statement written from people using language Y, whose implementation (or even worse - whose interpreter or VM) is written in language X: 
>  "Y is faster than X!" or "X is crap and outdated!". It is just a load of BS.