Bulat Ziganshin writes:

Hello Hemanth,

Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 2:05:44 PM, you wrote:

btw, i've written unfinished hslua tutorial: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HsLua

And in related news embedded Lua interpreter recently got upgraded to version 5.1.4. -- Gracjan

On 18/08/2010 12:20 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote: you could script in haskell by embedding hugs. Hugs exe + base lib ~ 1MB.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Hemanth Kapila wrote:

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Hi, Can some one please give me a suggestion on the best choice for an embedded scripting Language for a haskell application? I mean, something like guile/lua for c/c++ and groovy/jruby for java. For quite some time, I've been using a lisp-like interpreter that I implemented myself. But this is not going too well - going by this road, I suspect I will end up with a mule. I am looking for a pony (a declarative programming language). I am okay with a donkey too. baskell[1] seems interesting. And there's hslua[2]. Can one use hint[3] like this ?

How about a tiny lisp or scheme interpreter? Lots of those to choose from, (including some written in Haskell) and with a few clever macros you could easily provide a declarative DSL for users to work with. I see that you mentioned guile, but even tinyscheme would be pretty powerful and only add a few K to your project.

This raises the question, what is the smallest (or most embeddable anyway) Haskell interpreter that can be built?

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Mmh, I raised this question some months ago, I thought about Scheme and I've been recommended to use Lua instead of Scheme (as far as I remember, the author of a scheme implementation available on Hackage told it wasn't solid enough). I would add something: who will script for your application? If it is only the developper (i.e. you), you can use whatever language you want. But if the application is intended to be extended by its users (just like modders for games), then it may be preferable to use a -- still good -- but knowed language. Or at least a language that is easy to learn. Lua is a nice language, totally simple to learn, and made for scripting. Haskell is a über powerful language, but it is much longer to learn. Scheme is simpler to learn than Haskell, but far more "exotic" than Lua. Anyway, that's just my opinion. 2010/8/18 Stephen Sinclair

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Hemanth Kapila wrote:

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Hi, Can some one please give me a suggestion on the best choice for an embedded scripting Language for a haskell application? I mean, something like guile/lua for c/c++ and groovy/jruby for java. For quite some time, I've been using a lisp-like interpreter that I implemented myself. But this is not going too well - going by this road, I suspect I will end up with a mule. I am looking for a pony (a declarative programming language). I am okay with a donkey too. baskell[1] seems interesting. And there's hslua[2]. Can one use hint[3] like this ?

How about a tiny lisp or scheme interpreter? Lots of those to choose from, (including some written in Haskell) and with a few clever macros you could easily provide a declarative DSL for users to work with. I see that you mentioned guile, but even tinyscheme would be pretty powerful and only add a few K to your project.

This raises the question, what is the smallest (or most embeddable anyway) Haskell interpreter that can be built?

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