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by mhh__ 3248 days ago
Umm, I know how compilers work.

C is compiled to still compiles to assembly, but usually (GCC) your compiler driver handles assembling, linking etc.

Haskell is translated to core (basically a simplification of a small subset of Haskell), then the STG(The abstract machine, spinless-tagless-Gmachine) then Cmm (Basically unsafe C) then LLVM.
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brudgers 3247 days ago
The turtle at the bottom of Haskell is machine code...mutable non functional machine code that is isomorphic with the Haskell source.
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mhh__ 3247 days ago
The machine code can still be basically functional. GHC doesn't use any mutable data unless you tell it to, it generates and then immediately collects garbage rather than reuse mutable memory.

You can have mutable data in Haskell, obviously.

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