RE: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

| Does that mean that (to borrow from the GHC docs) "smaller, faster, | stingier" are acceptable items for the wishlist? That | possibility had never occurred to me. Certainly they are acceptable wishes! Of course, they are wishes we all have -- who would not want smaller, faster? However, th

RE: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Third, while the things you mention are important, they are not > at the top of the wish-list that Sven maintains for users of > Haskell (http://marutea.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/wishlist/index.html) Does that mean that (to borrow from the GHC docs) "smaller, fast

Re: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 06:29:24PM -0500, Eduardo Costa wrote: > Dear list members. > In my opinion, a compiler for a functional language should have the following > features: [snip] > 6- The code generated must be small, and use heap sparingly. I was amazed that an utterly trivial program compil

Re: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

On 25-Nov-1999, George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the GHC developers have got their priorities about right. Yes, GHC > is slow, hard to build, and big. That's because it's a research project. Making GHC easier to build would make it easier for researchers; it might well incr

Re: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

I think the GHC developers have got their priorities about right. Yes, GHC is slow, hard to build, and big. That's because it's a research project. It's more important now to concentrate on demonstrating that Haskell is a good language for all sorts of real programming problems. It won't be

RE: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

| My question is: Why Haskell compiler makers do not try to | catch with Clean | team, and surpass them? After all, there are many more people working | with Haskell than with Clean. A brief response. First, Clean is indeed an excellent system, and its implementors are fearsomely talented. As

Re: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

On 24-Nov-1999, Eduardo Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2- The compiler must be small. At most, 2 Megabytes. Why? -- Fergus Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTE

The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

Let's keep this brief, if it's not going to be constructive. - Please correct me if I'm wrong: Clean is a proprietary language. - http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/troll.html

The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

Dear list members. In my opinion, a compiler for a functional language should have the following features: 1- It should be easy to install in the most common platforms. The installation should be as easy as unpacking the compiler. 2- The compiler must be small. At most, 2 Megabytes. This should