Hello Sam, Friday, April 24, 2009, 8:36:50 PM, you wrote:
I work in Games middleware, and am very interested in looking at how Haskell could help us. We basically sell C++ libraries. I would like to be able to write some areas of our libraries in Haskell, compile the Haskell to C and incorporate that code into a C++ library.
well, you can intercept these files. once i wrote simple 4-line haskell utility (it may be 20 lines of C++ or so) and compiled it down to C. results was 300 lines or so which it's impossible to understand so, if you just need haskell-C++ interaction, you may look into using FFI [1,2]. if you believe that you can compile some java/ruby/haskellwhatever code down to C++ and incorporate it into your function - sorry, they all have too different computing model btw, my own program [3] goes this way - i combine fast C++ and complex Haskell code via FFI/dll to produce fast, feature-rich application [1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/Using_the_FFI [2] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/FFI_cook_book [3] http://freearc.org -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com