26: Simon Marlow
The Haskell Interlude
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The State of JSC at the Time
JSC was using C as its intermediate language. It wasn't for quite a while before the compiler was actually ported to x86 chips. Using C as a portable assembler was a path that many compilers took at the time. You had to have swathes of CPP macros and goodness knows what else to compile it.
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