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		jlokier on March 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thoughts on Bootstrapping GHC (2018) Because you only intend to run it once, on one input, and ad-hoc interpreters are usually simpler to write than compilers.

codeflo on March 21, 2022 [–]

Such a one-off Haskell interpreter might even get away without or with less rigorous type checking.

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