From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1d5d51400811202011o34f305acte3704e653f916cfa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:11:10 +0800 From: "Fernan Bolando" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <3e1162e60811201609x36cc0cf8i355f518eb9548643@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <881467ce0811200915odb0a042xb1c3aa2f292c2677@mail.gmail.com> <49259D0E.9050700@proweb.co.uk> <3e1162e60811201609x36cc0cf8i355f518eb9548643@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?] Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4dcaeb42-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 11/21/08, David Leimbach wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Iruata Souza wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:23 PM, matt wrote: >> > >> >>> >> >>> Without starting a flame war, I'd like to know if some of you think it >> >>> could >> >>> be useful on a Plan 9 grid/environment. >> >>> >> >>> >> > >> > I've often though quite a few languages could be shrunken down fit with >> > Plan9's diretory/files system. Python, for instance, would need much >> > less >> > code for networking etc. >> > >> > So a language that specialsed in I/O primitives would be a good choice. >> That >> > doesn't sound like Haskell to me. I/O is about changing state. That >> > said, >> > there must be a way to make it fit :) >> > >> > Of the few I have used, I think python is the best hybrid that fits. >> > >> >> once in a while I play with fgb's port of tinyscheme and it seems to >> fit for the pretty simple stuff I do. just for fun, I started adding >> some Plan 9 native calls to tinyscheme and it worked nicely. >> >> iru >> > > I've been doing a lot with both Haskell and Erlang these days... > > I'm also impressed by the rich Haskell library and that the binaries, even > on linux, tend to only depend on libc once built for "deployment". Well > that's true with GHC anyway, but porting GHC to Plan 9 might take a serious > step back in time to bootstrap the C sources all the way back up to the > current version. > > Dave > what about nhc98? -- http://www.fernski.com