Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-15 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Great! Thanks for putting the code out! Manuel ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-13 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Stewart wrote: This could be a game changer. In what way? As far as I'm aware, .NET never really caught on and has long since become obsolete. Or do you just mean the type system machinery that has been

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-13 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
Alex Queiroz wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Andrew Coppin In what way? As far as I'm aware, .NET never really caught on and has long since become obsolete. In what alternate universe? Anthropic Principle: Everyone is in a different bubble of observable reality.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-13 Thread Creighton Hogg
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Queiroz wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Andrew Coppin In what way? As far as I'm aware, .NET never really caught on and has long since become obsolete. In what alternate universe? Anthropic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-13 Thread Alex Sandro Queiroz e Silva
Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote: In what alternate universe? One with a 3-day time dilation, apparently... [Sorry, couldn't resist. ;-) ] No problem, I didn't get your point anyway. -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/ ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-12 Thread Andrew Appleyard
Jason Dagit wrote: Thank you for releasing this! No worries. I might never have got around to releasing it if it wasn't for the encouragement of Manuel Chakravarty, Don Stewart, and others. Thanks guys! [...] as I understand it the Haskell you write still lives in Haskell-land and the .NET

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Alfonso Acosta
Great! Are there any chances of getting support for non-Win32 platforms with Mono? On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Andrew Appleyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to announce the first release of Salsa, an experimental Haskell library that allows Haskell programs to access .NET libraries.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Don Stewart
This could be a game changer. Great work Andrew!! -- Don andrew.appleyard: I'd like to announce the first release of Salsa, an experimental Haskell library that allows Haskell programs to access .NET libraries. Here's a taste: type Hello.hs import Foreign.Salsa import Bindings

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Niklas Broberg
This could be a game changer. Great work Andrew!! Totally agreed, on both accounts. Really interesting to see. -- Don What, no Arch Linux port? :-) Cheers, /Niklas ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Andrew Coppin
Don Stewart wrote: This could be a game changer. In what way? As far as I'm aware, .NET never really caught on and has long since become obsolete. Or do you just mean the type system machinery that has been developed could be used for other projects? Great work Andrew!! Yes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread John Van Enk
.NET never really caught on and has long since become obsolete. Oh, if only this was the case. :( You wouldn't believe the things I have to make .NET run on (but I can't talk about it... yay for NDAs). /jve On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Don Stewart

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Anton van Straaten
Andrew Coppin wrote: Don Stewart wrote: This could be a game changer. In what way? As far as I'm aware, .NET never really caught on and has long since become obsolete. Wha? Microsoft's programming languages all now depend on and compile to .NET runtime (the CLR), including C#,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Andrew Coppin
Anton van Straaten wrote: I've heard people at more than one company say that if they could access .NET well from Haskell, they wouldn't be as interested in F#. Mmm, I could see how that would work... ;-) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Oct 10, at 15:48, Andrew Coppin wrote: Don Stewart wrote: This could be a game changer. In what way? As far as I'm aware, .NET never really caught on and has long since become News to me; lots of people installing VS.NET on campus... -- brandon s. allbery

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Salsa: A .NET Bridge for Haskell

2008-10-10 Thread Jason Dagit
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Andrew Appleyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to announce the first release of Salsa, an experimental Haskell library that allows Haskell programs to access .NET libraries. Wow, that's really great. I have a .NET friendly employer, so I'm happy to see a