On 28 Dec 2007, at 1:15 AM, Cristian Baboi wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:39:25 +0200, Jonathan Cast
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Haskell is not a computer programming language; Haskell
implementations are not required to run on computers. Haskell is
a formal notation for computation (completely unrelated to the Von
Neuman machine sitting on your desk). It can be implemented on
Von Neuman machines, because they are still universal Turing
machines, but it is /not/ a radical attack on the problem of
programming peripherals!
How do you call that "thing" that implement Haskell ?
Usually I call it a compiler for a computer. That's a fact about
economics, not about Haskell.
jcc
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