From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>
To: Kuba Ober <kuba@mareimbrium.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] - Convert Caml to C/C++, C#, PHP, etc -
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:38:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EF5AE2.3060309@starynkevitch.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810100837.54226.kuba@mareimbrium.org>
Kuba Ober wrote:
>>> Side note: is there an Ocaml bytecode-compiler written in Ocaml
>>> somewhere?
>> I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the standard Ocaml bytecode
>> compiler is written in Ocaml. The same is probably not true for
>> the bytecode VM.
>
> Chicken-and-egg question: how was it bootstrapped, at the dawn of time?
Some very ancient, embryonic, subset of Caml was initially coded in
LeLisp. You probably won't find any source of them (neither the first
Caml - which was a ancestor of CamlLight - not the LeLisp
implementation, which was proprietary, running on some obscure machine,
perhaps MITRA15 or whatever).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 4:03 axllaruse
2008-10-03 4:18 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-10-03 5:33 ` axllaruse
2008-10-03 5:39 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-10-03 8:06 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-10-03 9:56 ` [Caml-list] " Roberto Bagnara
2008-10-09 21:47 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-09 21:57 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-10-10 4:26 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-10 3:30 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2008-10-10 4:55 ` Jon Harrop
2008-10-10 14:25 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-10 12:37 ` Kuba Ober
2008-10-10 13:38 ` Basile STARYNKEVITCH [this message]
2008-10-03 16:57 ` David Teller
2008-11-17 14:30 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2008-10-03 9:50 ` Erkki Seppala
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