Re: [9fans] haskell for plan9 (fwd)

Re: [9fans] haskell for plan9 (fwd)

[ron minnich]

Matt asks:

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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:38:35 -0600 (MDT)
From: Sottile Matthew J. <matt@lanl.gov>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: [9fans] haskell for plan9 (fwd)


That is very cool.  How about an SML/NJ port - that came out of bell labs
so it might already be ported.

Re: [9fans] haskell for plan9 (fwd)

[Russ Cox]

There was an SML/NJ port long ago, but SML and
Plan 9 both evolved and it wasn't kept up-to-date.
SML knows a lot about the underlying system -- things
like register calling conventions and the like -- so it's
quite a job to port it.

I believe these are the same reasons that the GHC
compiler was said to be too hard to port.

Moscow ML, which is SML2000 compliant, has been
ported and is on the updates page.  It's a byte-code
interpreter, like Hugs, and was thus similarly easy
to port.

Russ

Re: [9fans] haskell for plan9

[andrey mirtchovski]

I got a request, so here are some modifications that I just put on the web --
hugs now has a 'make install' option that puts it in $home/lib/hugs; the
demos that come with hugs are also put in $home/lib/hugs/demos/.

if you want to make a global installation for your site change HUGLIB in the
Makefile to something like /sys/lib/hugs. the code to copy the libraries
is a hack, but should work in all but the weirdest cases.

andrey