What about a port to Windows CE (i.e., for Pocket PC's). Or even better yet, hugs for Pocket PC!
-Matt On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:27 pm, Tony Sloane wrote: > John Meacham wrote: > > This may be an intractable goal, but is any project out there > > anywhere > > > close to a working haskell 98(ish) implementation for the Palm > > Pilot? > > > There would probably have to be some compromises, like 16 bit Ints > > and > > > perhaps some other restrictions, but i don't think its impossible to > > get > > > some sort of lazy implementation to work on such a resource starved > > architecture so has anyone given it a shot? > > Here at Macquarie University we have done some work on this. Matthew > Tarnawsky ported the nhc98 runtime to the Palm as part of his 2002 > honours project working with myself and Dom Verity. With this port > it's possible to compile programs on a desktop machine and load the > bytecode onto a Palm for execution. There is a limited interface to > the Palm GUI libraries. > > Having said that, there is much to be done. The current > implementation has only been lightly tested and there are a number of > design decisions that we want to revisit, particularly relating to how > garbage collection works. We are starting to port the work to a > recent version of nhc98 and are looking at some of these questions. > > We hope to have something for others to play with in a few months. > Stay tuned to this list for an announcement. > > Cheers, > Tony Sloane _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
