On 21/11/2012, at 4:49 AM, <c...@lavabit.com> wrote: >> What would be the point in doing so? > > Well, I don't know. Would it save some time? Why bother with a core language?
For a high level language (and for this purpose, even Fortran 66 counts as "high level") you really don't _want_ a direct translation from source code to object code. You want to eliminate unused code and you want to do all sorts of analyses and improvements. It is *much* easier to do all that to a small core language than to the full source language. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
