For those of you interested, Mondrian and Haskell for .NET are available for the release version of Microsoft's .NET platform - see <http://www.mondrian-script.org>.
Mondrian is a simple functional language designed to inter-work with OO languages, and integrates well into .NET and with other languages running on .NET. Haskell for .NET is a partial implementation of Haskell - it consists of a modified version of GHC 4.08 which produces an intermediate code which the Mondrian compiler then digests. It is partial in that not all the run time libraries of GHC have been compiled (there is a lot of low-level code in them), but most of the core libraries are there with the exception of floating point (that low-level code again). A sense of its completeness may be guesstimated by the fact that it compiles the Mondrian compiler. Why only GHC 4.08? Well our changes to GHC clashed with other changes when the GHC 5 merge was taking place, we lost to the other changes (no complaints, one or the other had to win!). This rather stifled further work on Haskell. I'm currently seeking a student to work on a compiler from the new GHC Core output, and if one comes along Haskell will get a boost, if not it probably won't. But then, there is always Mondrian! Have fun. And yes there are holes... -- Nigel Perry, New Zealand _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
