From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] What about Haskell? [was: How can I use alef?]
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:34:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60811202134r6f074cdbo40328e19e123e5ba@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180811202018o29788e71n396c8a43465869e5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:18 PM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com>wrote:
> I think that with a bit more work, porting the Ocaml native compiler
> to Plan 9 would give you a bigger benefit than GHC (which is unwieldy)
> or an interpreter such as Hugs. Having a higher-level language in
> which to write native applications will, perhaps, give more people a
> viable reason to explore the system. Ocaml's compiler generates
> high-quality, reasonably fast code and a native port effort would be
> much less than the one for a similar Haskell compiler.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> A perfectly reasonable one too... OCaml may increase in popularity now that
F# is perhaps also picking up momentum, and they're both ML dialects.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-21 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 16:56 Giacomo Tesio
2008-11-20 17:15 ` Roman Zhukov
2008-11-20 17:23 ` matt
2008-11-20 19:42 ` Iruata Souza
2008-11-21 0:09 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-21 4:11 ` Fernan Bolando
2008-11-21 4:18 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-11-21 5:34 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2008-11-21 5:33 ` David Leimbach
2008-11-20 20:47 ` John Barham
2008-11-20 22:13 ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-11-20 23:46 ` Iruata Souza
2008-11-20 18:41 ` Gorka Guardiola
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