Wouter Swierstra wrote:
Can some one please give me a suggestion on the best choice for an embedded scripting Language for a haskell application?
Why not use Haskell itself?
That's not a half-bad idea. However, installing the whole of GHC (or worse, HP) just to do a little scripting is almost the very definition of the term "overkill". I don't know if Hugs or JHC would be any easier. Then again, how many embedded script languages need Software Transactional Memory, Nested Data Parallelism, the Foreign Function Interface, advanced program optimisation capabilities, and all the other things that GHC provides? I think there would probably be some mileage in somebody building a simplified Haskell interpretter specifically for embedding as a scripting language.