There was in fact another attempt as well, Salsa: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Salsa
This showed quite a bit of promise but unfortunately was not more than just an experiment. Matt On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Peter Verswyvelen <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes, but interop only touches the surface of what is possible. > > When a Haskell compiler could create IL code, it would be possible to > use the generated code inside a sandbox, e.g. to be used on the web as > loadable Silverlight code. > > Of course the same could be said about other virtual machines, such as > Flash or Java, but I don't know about the tail call issue here. > > I guess for now F# would be the best option, but it would be awesome > if Haskell compilers could have more backends. > > I realize this is a very big undertaking, and has been mentioned > before, but it doesn't hurt to refresh the cache lines once in a > while, so maybe some bright student picks this up and hacks together > something cool during the summer :) > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Paul Sujkov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > it seems that this question has been already raised before: > > > > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2005-January/008244.html > > > > and there are some .Net interop implementations on the net (it is a > question > > how mature they are, however): > > > > http://php.cin.ufpe.br/~haskell/haskelldotnet/<http://php.cin.ufpe.br/%7Ehaskell/haskelldotnet/> > > http://haskell.forkio.com/dotnet/ > > > > 2009/9/16 Peter Verswyvelen <[email protected]> > >> > >> I heard that compiling Haskell to Java is not obvious since tail calls > >> are not supported. > >> > >> .NET's intermediate language (IL) does support tail calls, however it > >> is currently slower than regular calls, and is not always supported by > >> all JITs. > >> > >> But given that F# will soon be officially released, I hope that > >> eventually tail calls will work as expected, and fast > >> > >> See e.g. > >> > http://blogs.msdn.com/clrcodegeneration/archive/2009/05/11/tail-call-improvements-in-net-framework-4.aspx > >> > >> So, might it be worth considering a .NET backend for a Haskell compiler? > >> > >> Peter Verswyvelen > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, Paul Sujkov > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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