Speaking of which, for a while now I've been interested in designs of make-like systems that have precise & simple (denotational) semantics with pleasant properties. What Peter Landin called "denotative" (as opposed to functional-looking but semantically ill-defined or intractable).

Norman Ramsey (cc'd) pointed me to the Vesta system from DEC SRC. If anyone knows of other related experiments, I'd appreciate hearing.

  - Conal

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, David Peixotto <dmp@rice.edu> wrote:
Hi Serge,

You may be thinking of the Shake DSL presented by Neil Mitchell at last years Haskell Implementers Workshop. Slides and video are available from: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaskellImplementorsWorkshop/2010

Max Bolingbroke has an open source implementation available here: https://github.com/batterseapower/openshake

Hope that helps.

-David

On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Serge Le Huitouze wrote:

> Hi Haskellers!
>
> I think I remember reading a blog post or web page describing a
> EDSL to describe tasks and their dependencies "a la" make.
>
> Can anyone point me to such published material?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --serge