On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Manuel M. T. Chakravarty wrote:
> That's interesting, indeed. I am also close to finishing
> the first version of a tool that simplifies Haskell access
> to C libraries by extracting interface information from C
> headers. Actually, I have just completed the draft of a
> paper about the tool that I plan to present at IFL'99 next
> month:
>
> ``C -> Haskell, or Yet Another Interfacing Tool''
> http://www.score.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/~chak/papers/Cha99b.html
>
Bravo!
I fully endorse your main motivations from your paper:
1. Simplification by avoidance of special devoted languages
and doing everything in Haskell instead.
2. Trying to make it generic enough, so it is not tied
up to MS world (I am - as well as you are, far from
criticising H/Direct: it has it niche, which is fine
and cool).
I believe that your experience with Gtk+hs has given you a good
insight into posible practical problems with callbacks, etc. A
good testing grounds. I am looking forward to see it completed.
It would be nice having it supported by Hugs as well.
Jan
