
That's out of date - I abandoned my first effort to do ghc.net in favour of doing a strict functional language first - F# is the result (http://research.microsoft.com/projects/fsharp). We still frequently talk about doing either Haskell.NET or a strict language much closer to Haskell (perhaps as a stepping stone to doing Haskell). But neither are currently active projects. Thanks Don -----Original Message----- From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of John Goerzen Sent: 29 December 2004 00:51 To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: [Haskell-cafe] GHC for .NET? Over at http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/resources/Default.aspx?ResourceTypeDr opDownList=Language+vendors&SortDirection=Desc&SortColumnName=CreationDa te, I read: "The GHC compiler for .NET is currently under development at Microsoft Research, Cambridge". Hmm. That location sounds familiar :-) Does anyone know if this is actually going to happen? Or if there's any code anywhere, however experimental, to try? As a side note, the dotgnu project includes a C-to-CLR compiler, though it has trouble passing the autoconf stuff in ghc (and I may not have the expertise to fix it; it is crashing on the alignment tests). I figure that if I can get portable enough C code out of ghc, and a runtime compiled to CLR, it should be possible to compile Haskell to .NET that way. Anyway, it's just me off on a tangent again. Thanks, John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

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We still frequently talk about doing either Haskell.NET or a strict language much closer to Haskell (perhaps as a stepping stone to doing Haskell). But neither are currently active projects.
I've heard complaints about the unsuitability of the Java VM for lazy functional languages. I wonder if the CLR also has issues for this? -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA
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