On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Brian Alliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:58:11AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > Is there an interest in hosting GHC on the JVM (besides my own). > > Yep. I wrote a JVM backend for GHC (LambdaVM). It is suffering from > bit-rot though. I think this thread has re-spaked my interest in it > though. > > > I don't think it's so hard to translate GHC's Core language to the > > JVM. > > Definitely not. That is more or less the route I took (I actually > transform STG it into yet another simple intermediate laguage that is > more JVM friendly, this was more for optimization purposes though). > While C-- looks fantastic for generating native code, it just didn't > seem worth the effort to shoehorn it into the JVM. Although I haven't > looked at any of the new backend stuff, I suspect it still won't be > suitable for the JVM. > > -Brian > _____ Being able to integrate Haskell into a rather large Java codebase might have made me not choose Erlang. Luckily, the OTP Erlang distribution had a lot of other really desirable features for the project I was working, yet I feel the lack of strong type checking hurt my productivity a bit, especially when trying to come up with a way to specify the real INs and OUTs between the Java and the Erlang code in terms of types. The right way to solve that problem is with a stronger specification between the Java team, and the Erlang team (aka me), however, it was still a really positive experience in the ways of functional programming, and I suppose I could have used Haskell to generate the glue between Java and Erlang had I been a better Haskeller :-). > __________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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