On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:02 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Duncan,
Monday, April 30, 2007, 10:11:09 AM, you wrote:
how ghc/mingw can be used with java? :)
I expect it's quite tricky! :-)
I'm not claiming it works or is easy, I was just commenting that making
so, you agree that 99% of foreign-language libs that can be used with ghc/mingw are written either in C or C++?
But if you're using this to argue that we should ship a C++ compiler then it's just a circular argument. If we only ship a C compiler then 99% of foreign language libs that are easily usable with ghc/mingw are written in C. If we ship perl and python and whatever compilers then the foreign language libs that are easily usable would be in a wider range of languages. Remember that you don't even need a C compiler for ghc to be able to use C apis (or C apis exported from C++ libs). It's just not modular to bundle them all together. You can quite easily install a C, C++, Java or Pascal compiler and use that to build libs that export C apis and then use ghc (or any other Haskell impl) to use those apis. Duncan