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From: Theo Honohan <theo@ideaworks3d.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] haskell (was Re: C++ compiler anyone?)
Date: Thu,  2 Aug 2001 15:02:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E15SIwG-0003Op-00@starfruit.iw3d.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108011408.KAA20673@augusta.math.psu.edu>

On Wednesday 1 August, Dan Cross wrote ("Re: [9fans] C++ compiler anyone?"):
>
> In article <E15Rep2-0001uq-00@starfruit.iw3d.co.uk>,
> Theo Honohan <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
> >No, but hugs should be very easy.  GHC, on the other hand, would
> >probably be quite a handful.
> 
> Yes, that's what I thought as well.  GHC would be prefered, but
> is non-trivial to port.

Also, I think the GHC runtime is currently being redesigned and
reimplemented, so it's probably not a great time to start a port.

Perhaps the thing to do is to track the progress one of the open source
implementations of the Microsoft .NET CLR.  It's already targetted by
many compilers for other functional languages, and official GHC support
is on the way.



  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-02 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-31 16:09 [9fans] C++ compiler anyone? Russ Cox
2001-07-31 17:55 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-31 19:12   ` Theo Honohan
2001-08-01 14:08     ` Dan Cross
2001-08-02 14:02       ` Theo Honohan [this message]
2001-08-03 15:19         ` [9fans] haskell (was Re: C++ compiler anyone?) Dan Cross
2001-08-04  0:49           ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-04  1:11             ` Rick Hohensee
2001-08-01  7:30   ` [9fans] C++ compiler anyone? pac
2001-08-01  8:58     ` andrey mirtchovski
2001-08-01 19:04     ` Andrew Pochinsky
2001-08-02  0:07       ` Quinn Dunkan

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