At 10:27 am -0700 26/10/00, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

| I was reading some .net stuff (ducks) on microsoft, and they | mentioned haskell as one of the languages someone was | targetting for it. | Anyone know anything about this project?

I know of several stabs in this direction, none completed.

- There is most of a Java back end for GHC

- There are various pieces of a C# back end for GHC, compiling via in intermediate generic OO language called GOO. Nigel Perry is working on this (actively I think)

This is indeed being worked on. Currently user code compiles (as far as it has been tested) but there is no prelude yet so it doesn't run too well ;-) The code generator was designed for research and supporting scripting, which is a kind way of saying it doesn't produce blazingly fast code.

- Don Syme and Reuben Thomas are working on a back end for GHC that compiles to a polymorphically-typed IL for .NET that is Don's baby. A lot of this works, but it's not complete.

Maybe others are doing stuff too? It's a pity that there's nothing that's usable yet, but I hope that'll change.

Cheers, Nigel