Re: Haskell and the NGWS Runtime

[Erik Meijer]

> > This runtime just needs to be ported to other operating systems
> > similarily to the Java runtime.
>
> So it's a question of either source availability - or at least a very
> complete specification - or Microsoft strategy.

With the SDK that you can download from MS comes a 500 page specification of
the runtime and the IL. So if you have a free Saturday and you want to get
famous, then give that Linux implementation a try.

Some interesting background on MS plans to standardize this stuff is
available at http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/tc39/mins-13jul00.html#csharp.

Erik