On 1/25/06, FernanBolando@astec-power.com <FernanBolando@astec-power.com>
wrote:
>
> From: Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov
> >Dan Cross wrote:
> >>  But, more to the point, snappy
> >> one-liners like the above just smack of elitism and don't convey any
> >> real information.  Just because it's not the fashionable way to do
> >> something in the Plan 9 world doesn't mean it may not be necessary due
> >> to circumstances beyond an individual's control.
> >
> >yes, it's a plan 9 problem. "We don't have it, so it must not be good".
> >Sometimes, it's true; not having a lot of stupid things is a plus on
> >Plan 9. Other times, however, we don't have things that we ought.
> >
> >Subversion is very nice. You don't really need apache, andrey has set up
> >svn on xcpu.org without apache.
> >
> >i have no idea of how much work it is to port, except ... it's c++, I
> think.
>
> >mercurial might be easier. don't know.
>
> In linux I use darcs it's written in haskell. I tried once or twice to
> look into
> ghc source and try to get it running under plan9 so I can run darcs but
> failed.
> I dont have much experience with haskell except for darcs.
>
> Maybe someone with more knowledge with haskell can take a look.
>
> ,Fernan
>


You are supposed to be able to generate some intermediate C to port haskell
to new platforms.  I took a swipe at this once... it did not go well :)

Dave