On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:09:40PM +0200, Arnaud Bailly wrote:
I am dreaming awake that Haskell's versatility, safety and expresiveness could allow me to quickly build tools that could generate system components instead of coding them. I am thinking about an approach based on a sort of DSL design with Haskell then code/bytecode generation to Java/whatever platform. Does anybody have experiences with that, particularly for GUI parts ?
This is my dream too :-) My area is data processing. Most of my programs can afford quite a long initialisation phase, but then are required to process huge amounts of data. I am thinking about using that initialisation phase to generate C/C++ code from Haskell and compile it. This would allow me to move most of the more complicated logic to Haskell. I just hate writing parsers and the like in C++. Perhaps there is a chance for cooperation? BTW, I think it would be nice if we could use Template Haskell quoting facilities for generating code in languages other than Haskell. Best regards Tomasz