Simon Peyton-Jones
Wed, 24 May 2000 01:22:41 -0700
GHC has a Java back end in development. You say ghc -J Foo.hs to produce Foo.java. It doesn't work properly yet (library and I/O issues mainly). But Erik Meijer, Nigel Perry and Andy Gill are actively working on it. So it'll work soon. Performance will not be great. More like Hugs than GHC. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Johannes Waldmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 24 May 2000 09:20 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Haskell -> Java bytecode? | | | Wouldn't it be nice if there were a Haskell compiler backend | that produced Java bytecode? Then I could write applets | in my favourite language, compile them, put them on my web page, | and everyone could execute them in their browser... | | Seriously, is there any work in that direction? | Surely someone must have investigated this before. | Perhaps there are convincing arguments why it can't/shouldn't be done? | -- | -- Johannes Waldmann ---- | http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~joe/ -- | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- phone/fax (+49) 341 9732 | 204/209 -- | |