I know at one time GHC had partially-working support for emitting bytecode with the "-J" switch -- see fptools/ghc/compiler/javaGen. Does anybody know what became of it? Any documentation beyond the source?
- a "S. Alexander Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A lot of phones run java bytecode. > > It would be nice (and rather cool) to be able to > write midlets in Haskell in addition to Java.... > > (And there would be some irony in being able to do > this in Haskell but not in Erlang on Ericson > phones!) > > -Alex- > > ______________________________________________________________ > S. Alexander Jacobson tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Einar Karttunen writes: >> >> > Tomasz Zielonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> For example, some darcs users complain ... >> >> > Perhaps making -keep-hc-files a bit more documented ... >> > >> > This could be faster and easier to implement than creating a version of >> > the RTS running under the JVM. >> ============== >> >> More generally: do you (Tomasz and others) really think that Java, >> or even C/C++ is a good "portable" platform for implementing efficiently >> Haskell or other lazy functional languages?? >> >> I believe this has been discussed already. And GHC passed already >> through this stage. I don't believe the world can return to it. The >> RT model is different, even decently implemented tail recursion is >> not so easy in C, and in Java I wouldn't bet either. >> >> Moreover, I don't think that Haskell is a good way to perpetuate >> imperative languages as "portable platforms". While Lisp machine >> belongs to the past, it seems reasonable to hope that "functional >> hardware", with some universal implementation paradigms, will be >> more popular... >> >> >> Jerzy Karczmarczuk >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >> -- I wrote my own mail server and it still has a few bugs. If you send me a message and it bounces, please forward the bounce message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
