namekuseijin <namekusei...@gmail.com> wrote: > Take haskell and its so friggin' huge and complex that its got its > very own scary monolithic gcc. When you think of it, Scheme is the > one true high-level language with many quality perfomant backends -- > CL has a few scary compilers for native code, but not one to java, > .NET or javascript that I know of...
What exactly is "friggin' huge" and "complex" about Haskell, and what's this stuff about a "very own monolithic gcc"? Haskell isn't a lot more complex than Scheme. In fact, Python is much more complex. Reduced to bare metal (i.e. leaving out syntactic sugar) Haskell is one of the simplest languages. Since recent versions of GHC produced code is also very small. The only downside of Haskell is that the popular VMs like JVM and .NET are not supported. But that's also because their type systems are very incompatible. Haskell can express types, which they can't express. The only thing I could imagine to bring the worlds together is another foreign function interface, a JFFI and a VESFFI. In my opinion Scheme is not the "one true high-level language". For me personally Haskell gets much closer to this. For others it's probably Common Lisp or something else. Greets, Ertugrul -- nightmare = unsafePerformIO (getWrongWife >>= sex) http://ertes.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
