
26: Simon Marlow
The Haskell Interlude
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How I Moved From Miranda to Haskell
When you learned how to implement Miranda, did you look at the actual Miranda implementation or just general ideas? Well, so this course, I think it used the STG machine as its implementation technique. And there was also a bit of material in this course about Haskell, which was very new at the time. So he decided to go on from there to do a PhD. He met Simon Payton Jones and told him that he'd been reading his book 'Implementing functional languages'
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