Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 09-Aug-1998, Erik Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > >The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it > >"ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a > >genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked. > > > >IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutting

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Daan Leijen
> I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > means that they are rather useless to me. > Lets clarify some points: - H/Direct is a OSF DCE IDL compiler which can not only generate COM specific bindings but also for example

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Timothy Robin BARBOUR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > "Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sigbjorn> As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something > Sigbjorn> similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see > > Sigbjorn>http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Lennart Augustsson writes: > > > I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > > means that they are rather useless to me. > I agree! > Mud sticks, so may I suggest you actually take the time to read the available docs b

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Lennart Augustsson
> I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > means that they are rather useless to me. I agree! -- Lennart

Re: some Standard Haskell issues

1998-08-10 Thread Simon Marlow
"Jeffrey R. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought the if-the-else proposal seemed odd until I followed the link > and read the exact proposal. Simon: your if-then-else example on the > Standard Haskell page seems at odds with the actual proposal (e.g. isn't > the point that the `else' i

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: > .. > > I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., > H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it > means that they are rather useless to me. > Sigh, it's not *based* on proprietary standards - whatever gave you that idea? The IDL com