> Hi! Before raising my questions please point me in the appropriate direction > if these questions have been asked before. I have also just requested to join > the various Haskell mail lists. My questions are really concerned with the > commercial viability of Haskell especially in the face of the Java juggernaut > and the development of quality software components. Dinesh, We're working hard on integrating GHC and Hugs with Microsoft's COM (Component Object Model). Perhaps CORBA too in due course, but COM is simpler. That gives us a way to talk to Java (and vice versa). There's a paper you may find interesting "Scripting COM components in Haskell", at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonpj. Erik Meijer and Daan Leijen is doing a lot of work on this too: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~erik/Personal/Default.html As part of our planned GHC/Hugs integration we'll be doing a lot more work on this component based programming stuff. Do you have a direct interest in this? An application? Simon
