Alain wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/09 14:36:
>> I was just reading about some guy who's trying to compile the new 
>> version of GHC on Solaris or something random like that. I found this 
>> phrase deeply amusing:
>>
>>   "...as soon as I can got out of the cycled happy dependency."
>>
>> Cyclic happy dependency. That's deep! LOL.
>>
>> (He is of course referring to the parser-generator known as Happy. 
>> Apparently you need Happy to build GHC's language parser - but to 
>> build Happy in the first place, you need to have GHC. Checkmate.)
> The first C compiler was writen and compiled in C. Think about a chicken 
> and egg paradoxe where the chicken IS the egg IS the chicken...

Well, GHC (a Haskell compiler) is written in Haskell. Mostly.

(Apart from the runtime engine, which is C. Oh, and The Evil Mangler, 
which is Perl...)

Presumably at some point in pre-history, it was all C. It must have 
been. Heh.

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