Norman Ramsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> This position may be of at most peripheral interest to readers of the
> Haskell mailing list, but it may not. I would like to hire a
> research-staff member to help build a C-- compiler, using the
> functional language Objective Caml. Experience with compiler
> construction using Haskell would be more than ample qualification for
> the position, and once we have the new compiler, the very first thing
> we want to do is target GHC to it---so there is a Haskell connection.
I am all for C--, but would that imply that in order to
build GHC, besides the already big trouble of having the
right version of GHC and Happy installed, you would also
have to have the right version of Objective Caml? I mean,
you would need Objective Caml, to build the C-- compiler and
then GHC to build first Happy and then you can start
compiling GHC? And probably the C-- compiler will use
ML-Yacc...
How about building the C-- compiler in Haskell? This would
then only add one more piece to the GHC Build Puzzle(tm) -
namely getting the right version of the C-- compiler.
Manuel
