> So they were not exactly novices in their language of choice. Writing a compiler is not a task for novices in general. Only having a few thousand lines of co

> So they were not exactly novices in their language of choice. Writing a compiler is not a task for novices in general. Only having a few thousand lines of code written in Haskell very much makes you a novice. With that said, writing a compiler in Haskell is actually pretty trivial. It's at the very least considerably easier than most other languages.