On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 07:54:12PM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
David Brown wrote:
I think a lot has to do with economies of scale. I heard a talk by one of
the designers of the Haskell language about how they spent several years
trying to develop a specialized processor for the language. They ended up
concluding that with any kind of resources they could find, they couldn't
even approach how general-purpose processors were advancing. They got to
You would think they would have taken a lesson from the designers of the
Lisp Machine and not even tried.
Given that they were probably doing it around the same time period, they
lessons probably hadn't been learned by anyone yet.
I looked through the slides he gave at the presentation. Unfortunately,
the history of this project was just something he talked about between two
of the slides. It was before he started work on the Haskell language, so
pre 1989.
Dave
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