Brandon S. Allbery wrote:

 > Languages evolve too; Haskell has several antecedents suitable to
 > bootstrapping it, admittedly with varying levels of pain:  LML,
 > Miranda, if you really wanted to you could do it in Scheme or SML
 > (and even Prolog, but keep the Excedrin bottle handy).

 > And as already noted, Hugs is written in C.  Again, headache-inducing,
 > but remember that any Turing-equivalent language can be used to
 > implement any other if you're willing to do the work.  Expressiveness
 > certainly makes it easier, but nothing (other than sanity...) stops
 > you from writing a Haskell compiler in, say, COBOL.


Brent Yorgey wrote:

 > *I* would stop you.  Friends don't let friends write in COBOL.


That last made me physically laugh out loud!

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