On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Hemanth Kapila
Hi, Can some one please give me a suggestion on the best choice for an embedded scripting Language for a haskell application? I mean, something like guile/lua for c/c++ and groovy/jruby for java. For quite some time, I've been using a lisp-like interpreter that I implemented myself. But this is not going too well - going by this road, I suspect I will end up with a mule. I am looking for a pony (a declarative programming language). I am okay with a donkey too. baskell[1] seems interesting. And there's hslua[2]. Can one use hint[3] like this ?
How about a tiny lisp or scheme interpreter? Lots of those to choose from, (including some written in Haskell) and with a few clever macros you could easily provide a declarative DSL for users to work with. I see that you mentioned guile, but even tinyscheme would be pretty powerful and only add a few K to your project. This raises the question, what is the smallest (or most embeddable anyway) Haskell interpreter that can be built? Steve