* Why cmark is written in C? @ 2017-08-06 4:33 Kolen Cheung [not found] ` <89ae88db-f9be-499c-b743-fe2d2cbc5ee7-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Kolen Cheung @ 2017-08-06 4:33 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 195 bytes --] Hi, I'm just curious. Why cmark is written in C instead of Haskell? (A longer but more accurate question should be why write it in C and provide a Haskell binding and not the other way around?) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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* Re: Why cmark is written in C? [not found] ` <89ae88db-f9be-499c-b743-fe2d2cbc5ee7-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> @ 2017-08-06 15:37 ` John MacFarlane 2017-08-06 15:38 ` John MacFarlane 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: John MacFarlane @ 2017-08-06 15:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw 1. Speed. 2. Portability (easy to create bindings to a C library in any other language). 3. The current parsing algorithm is imperative in style; the C library gives a model that can easily be copied in other imperative languages. +++ Kolen Cheung [Aug 05 17 21:33 ]: >Hi, I'm just curious. Why cmark is written in C instead of Haskell? > >(A longer but more accurate question should be why write it in C and provide a Haskell binding and not the other way around?) > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/89ae88db-f9be-499c-b743-fe2d2cbc5ee7%40googlegroups.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: Why cmark is written in C? [not found] ` <89ae88db-f9be-499c-b743-fe2d2cbc5ee7-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> 2017-08-06 15:37 ` John MacFarlane @ 2017-08-06 15:38 ` John MacFarlane 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: John MacFarlane @ 2017-08-06 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw That said, I'd be happy to see a pure Haskell CommonMark parsing library. If there were one, I'd use it in pandoc instead of cmark. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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