On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, John O'Donnell wrote:
> So there is another way to use functional languages: they can help you to
> express your algorithm cleanly and simply, and they can also help you in
> deriving a more efficient low-level version via program transformation. If
> you like, it's possible to transform the program all the way down to C or
> Fortran, and at that point you don't need a Haskell compiler or graph
> reduction at all - you just use the Fortran or C compiler.
Very clever! But how practical it is, John, at the current state
of art? Assume nothing about my understanding of transformation
techniques. What would be a time-frame of getting such magic
usable, provided that you have found some rich uncle
(definitely not me :)) to sponsor such a project?
Jan
