On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 10:40 -0700, Daryoush Mehrtash wrote:
In this presentation
http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/unrestricted/colloq/details.cgi?...
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?
Daryoush
1. Haskell Class/Type famillies/... are conceptually different then classes and interfaces. 2. As .Net does not differentiate between IO a and a Haskell cannot feel completely native (hand-made FFI or everything in IO) 3. .Net does differentiate between variables and functions with 0 arguments. 4. .Net types are not lazy. String is not [Char]. Arrays are used in many places. Regards