Re: Haskell -> Java bytecode?

[Jerzy Karczmarczuk]

Johannes Waldmann:

> 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?

I would pose a different question: could you tell us *what kind
of applets* would you like to write in a pure lazy language, why
it would be more pleasant than Java (or Tcl/Tk, or ...)
*IN THIS CONCRETE CONTEXT*?

(There are two problems here: the coding of some nice algorithm
which does something very inspiring, and ...
... the interfacing. And here Haskell and Java are worlds apart.)


Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Caen, France