Re: Evaluating Haskell

1997-08-27 Thread D. tweed
On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, David Wilczynski wrote: 1) JAVA -- Are there any plans to compile Haskell into byte codes for execution on the Java Virtual Machine? The Java issue is very important. This raises an interesting question (although it doesn't really directly help David). From what I've

Re: Evaluating Haskell

1997-08-27 Thread Hans Aberg
David Wilczynski writes: 1) JAVA -- Are there any plans to compile Haskell into byte codes for execution on the Java Virtual Machine? The Java issue is very important. At 09:22 97/08/27, Simon L Peyton Jones wrote: I know of a couple of prototypes of such a thing, one at Yale, and one at

Re: Evaluating Haskell

1997-08-27 Thread Hans Aberg
At 10:35 97/08/27, D. tweed wrote: .. From what I've read, the JVM is designed to be a platform independent machine code which: I) is quickly and efficiently mappable onto a variety of real architectures. II) is optimised for representing Java programs and in particular: III)is designed to be

Re: Evaluating Haskell

1997-08-27 Thread D. tweed
Firstly, sorry about the double post -- my mailer seems to have the idea that _any_ e-mail adress _anywhere_ in the header should be replied to. On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Hans Aberg wrote: At 10:35 97/08/27, D. tweed wrote: .. From what I've read, the JVM is designed to be a platform independent

Re: Evaluating Haskell

1997-08-27 Thread Philip Wadler
I have not followed the Pizza mailing list (how do you get Pizza in the mail?). You can find out about Pizza (and join the mailing list) at any of the web sites. If you are interested in functional programming and Java, please have a gander! -- P

Re: Evaluating Haskell

1997-08-27 Thread Philip Wadler
I have not followed the Pizza mailing list (how do you get Pizza in the mail?). You can find out about Pizza (and join the mailing list) at any of the web sites. If you are interested in functional programming and Java, please have a gander! -- P

Evaluating Haskell

1997-08-26 Thread David Wilczynski
I have been introduced to Haskell by a (former) colleague, Dave Wile of USC/Information Sciences Institute. I am evaluating Haskell for use in a component oriented environment geared toward manufacturing. I have downloaded: "The Gentle Introduction...", the Haskell 1.4 report, the