Thiago Arrais wrote: > There is one issue, though, that touches a lot of sensitive areas. The > Eclipse platform runs inside a Java Virtual Machine. Unfortunately, > there isn't currently a way to compile Haskell to the JVM (at least I > don't know of any, if someone knows, please let me know). This means > the IDE has to be written in Java, not in Haskell. That's the price we > are paying now. Writing a tool for a language in a different language.
Ah, now there's a thing! I don't have any good answers, but I have a friend who is interested in such things, and may even be looking for a project in this area. In our discussions, a number of links came up, but I'm not sure if I can find them all. Here's an attempt: http://www.xoltar.org/languages/nice.html http://www.pugscode.org/ http://scala.epfl.ch/index.html Nothing very specific to your ideas goal, but there's some work on compiling functional code to JVM. I was also talking to someone from Cambridge Comlab the other week who has an FP-like system (for web service/portal creation) that uses JVM bytecode modification. maybe some useful experience to draw upon there? I'm also reminded of a project I was in discussion about some time ago, which was to explore use of Haskell program transformation techniques (hopefully adapting some ideas from BMF/Squiggol) for implementing aspects of a JIT runtime for JVM. Unfortunately, that never took off (and was maybe too ambitious for the effort contemplated). There is some related work at the kestrel Institute [http://www.kestrel.edu/home/projects/] #g -- Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
