Re: [Haskell-cafe] What makes Haskell difficult as .NET?

On May 15, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Daryoush Mehrtash wrote:

the speaker talks about F# on .Net platform. Early on in the talk he says that they did F# because haskell would be "hard to make as a .Net language". Does anyone know what features of Haskell make it difficult as .Net language?

Laziness is the obvious one: a plain integer type in an ML-like language can map directly onto a .Net primitive value type, whereas Int in Haskell has to map onto something boxed.