On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Tim Watson <watson.timo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> In Erlang, I can rpc/send *any* term and evaluate it on another node. That > includes functions of course. Whether or not we want to be quite that > general is another matter, but that is the comparison I've been making. > Note that Erlang gets away with this through being a virtual machine architecture; BEAM is about as write-once-run-anywhere as it gets, and the platform specifics are abstracted by the BEAM VM interpreter. You just aren't going to accomplish this with a native compiled language, without encoding as a virtual machine yourself (that is, the AST-based mechanisms). Perhaps you should consider fleshing out ghc's current bytecode support to be a full VM? Or perhaps an interesting alternative would be a BEAM backend for ghc. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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