Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell *interpreter* on iPad? (Scheme and Ocaml are there)

And while we are dreaming, in an iOS port of GHCi (meaning GHCi runs on iOS and doesn't just generate code for it), it would be great to make bytecode persistent — ie, the bytecode that GHCi currently generates internally to interpret programs should be serialized to save and load it. (Note that iOS apps are not allowed to generate binary code, so we wouldn't need the gcc tool chain etc, but just have a stripped down GHCi that generates bytecode only. All pre-compiled libraries that are part of the GHCi app can of course still be native code and load and interact with the interpreter as usual.) Manuel Don Stewart:

Oh, Scheme is trivial to implement, when compared with Haskell. So people write it from scratch as a tutorial exercise.

Haskell isn't trivial to implement from scratch, so instead we port existing implementations mostly.

That means really, porting Hugs or GHC. And you've been pointed at examples.

I think people are clearly keen for this, now it is a small matter of programming talent and will.

-- Don

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:03 PM, John Velman wrote:

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On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:44:01PM +0400, MigMit wrote:

Well, this is my point. THERE ARE 3 SCHEME INTERPRETERS in the iPad app store.

They run on factory iPads, not jailbroken.

The GUI for the gambitREPL (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop) is just like a console. Input a scheme expression. CR. Answer appears, new prompt.

In haskell we need to allow for some way to input layout. I don't recall how Hugs handles this, if at all.

There are probably 5 or 10 people out there who want to learn functional programming, and they are studying Scheme on their iPads. Or Ocaml.

I don't forsee doing production programming ON THE IPAD, but experimenting, testing some functions, and, by the way, learning Haskell.

While I'm fantasizing, something like Hugs or ghci with SOE would really be neat.

Sorry for shouting :-)

John Velman

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Well, Haskell is fun, isn't it? And that's what iPhone is perfect for: fun.

Back when I had iPod Touch 1G (jailbroken, of course), I used to run Hugs on it. Now I would love to see a Haskell interpreter in the App Store -- which, by the way, is possible; as there are Scheme interpreters there, why not Haskell?

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Jun 18, 2011, в 22:27, Jack Henahan написал(а):

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I suppose you could make a GUI, by why? Given that you'll have to be working on a jailbroken device, anyway, one could just as well use one of the numerous terminal emulators now floating around for jailbroken iOS. That said, the idea of people writing Haskell on phones and iPads and so on makes me just a little bit grinny.

On Jun 18, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Alexander Solla wrote:

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On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM, John Velman wrote: To further emphasize, I'd like to type in (or paste in) Haskell code and have it executed on the iPad. To reiterate: Something like Hugs, or ghci on the iPad.

Since the iPhone OS is pretty much OS X for ARM, and GHC apparently now supports cross-compilation, you can compile GHC for iOS. I guess you could cross compile Hugs with GCC. Doing so probably isn't trivial, but it should be straightforward.

I bet you could even use Xcode to make a graphical user interface to GHCi. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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