
20 Jun
2007
20 Jun
'07
11:29 a.m.
skaller wrote:
GHC needs to target *professional windows programmers*. They're going to have VS installed already. Haskell is far too important a language (IMHO) not to have an entry in the commercial programming arena.
Commercial programming is in a bad way! It NEEDS stuff like Haskell available.
BTW: I don't really like Windows .. but I want to see Haskell succeed. Trying to do Haskell on Windows without MSVC++ toolchain is like trying to work on Linux without binutils... :)
This is a fine point, and probably the biggest reason for doing a Windows native port. I'd like to see it happen, but we need help! Cheers, Simon