Jonathan Cast writes:
karczma@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
... Why for goodness' sake, people interested in Haskell *should* worry about parsing of Java bytecode chunks?
It depends on your reason for interest. A better question: why should people interested in Java be interested in using Haskell to manipulate it?
Because Haskell is (IMHO) the best pure data manipulation language around (pure data, not pure manipulation). Really, all code-walkers should be written in Haskell.
If you say so... It is nice to be so categorical. But not all people would dare... Already source parsers in Haskell are not so straightforward. Monadic are very nice. People teach compilation in such a way, (I did it myself but I didn't care about efficiency). Swierstra et al. did a great job, but the result is not easy to master. So, in general, although I am on your side concerning the usage of Haskell, I must say that I hate the philosophy "Eine Kirche, eine Sprache"... If the context - as here - is often very <<stateful>>, we, the True Functional Believers have no chance to convince people to use functional languages, if they are used to other style of programming. That's why I was surprised that somebody got surprised. There is no need to convince people reading this list. Try to convince others... Jerzy Karczmarczuk