There was work done on haskell for the palmos done my Tony Sloane and Matt Tarnawski at Macquarie University. In the end, Matt mangaged to demonstrate a working palm runtime (based on nhc I believe) but in the process discovered all kinds of reasons trying to get a haskell interpreter on a palm pilot was going to be trouble. The work at macquarie on palms and haskell now centers on using Haskell as a language to aid programming for the palm - not for controlling the palm directly. Instead of creating palm apps in haskell (requiring the runtime) the preferred option is to generate c-code from haskell code. Two senior academics at Macquarie have a (probably rare?) combination of interests - palm and haskell - and as a result there is some really interesting research being done. Stay tuned - you should see most of the really interesting stuff in the communities report, but if you want more info, or you are working in this area yourself...... matt On 25/01/2005, at 4:31 AM, John Goerzen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:48:49PM +0000, Graham Klyne wrote:
At 20:15 21/01/05 +0000, John Goerzen wrote:
I have built a fixed Hugs for the Zaurus PDA running the OpenZaurus distribution. Download here: http://quux.org/devel/zaurus/hugs_hugs98-Nov2003-r1_arm.ipk
Cool!
I've often thought Haskell should be a good language for programming PDA functions, as a kind of super-calculator. Now I've seen versions mentioned for two PDAs, but no Palm yet.
Out of curiosity, do you know what the other PDA is?
I suspect the reason there's nothing for Palm is because one probably can't just port to it in the normal sense. For isntance, until recently, PalmOS had no notion of a filesystem, though it does have simplistic database functions built in and a type/creator thing similar to older versions of MacOS. Memory is also quite constrained on many Palms, and I think management is different than in standard C, but I'm not certain of that.
The port to Zaurus is easy because it is a real OS (Linux) on it. Even comes with a terminal emulator. And one can run Debian or X (www.pdaxrom.org) on it, too. It's a good PDA for a geek :-)
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