On Friday 02 November 2007 04:11, John Cowan wrote: > F# was a research project. I doubt there would be enough research-fu > in just doing it again for the JVM, which is after all very similar.
Yes. I think there would be great merit in forgetting about the research side of things and just writing an ML that targets the JVM. There have been some attempts at writing compiler backends for languages like SML and OCaml but nobody has tried writing a decent development environment for them (e.g. with integrated top-levels). -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to jvm-languages@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
