On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 21:20, MR K P SCHUPKE wrote:
The other area (again MS specific) that F# has better interoperability, is .NET . F# (notice similarity to C#) is a funtional language within the .NET framework - hence supports the 'COM' style interface within the language primitives, just like C# does. This means coding a .NET component in F# is trivial - In haskell its still pretty hard-core (its hard even in C hence the prevelence of visual-toolkits on the MS platform - and also the eventual development of C#)
Well, .NET basically works nice with C# and any other language that you cripple until you get C# with a different syntax. Even C++ doesn't really work nicely on the CLR: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/2005/clr.htm How can anybody expect Haskell to fit in under these circumstances? Haskell simply is to powerful to fit into the CLR straight jacket.
The only way the author of this comment can be persuaded to delete it I think is if Haskell were to have a neat .NET component interface, unfortunately Haskell's class system is not up to incorporating OO hierachies like .NET without some changes...
Not? How about http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/papers/PC03.html Manuel