Re: [Haskell-cafe] Experimental compilation of Haskell to Erlang

2008-05-20 Thread John Meacham
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:00:53PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: >> It's a fair bit of engineering work, there are some design decisions >> to be made - such as how to interface with the host language (if at >> all). Theoretically its not that hard to come up with something, but >> it is a fair amoun

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Experimental compilation of Haskell to Erlang

2008-05-19 Thread Andrew Coppin
Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi Two (somewhat tangental) thoughts come to mind. 1. Should it not, in theory at least, be *relatively* easy to target Haskell at anything that has a graph reduction machine? (You target Erlang, somebody else has targetted JavaScript, I myself attempted to target Java.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Experimental compilation of Haskell to Erlang

2008-05-19 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi >> Some time ago I became interested in compilation of Haskell programs >> (via Yhc Core) to Erlang to be able to run Haskell code in Erlang >> environment. >> > > Two (somewhat tangental) thoughts come to mind. > > 1. Should it not, in theory at least, be *relatively* easy to target Haskell >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Experimental compilation of Haskell to Erlang

2008-05-19 Thread Andrew Coppin
Dimitry Golubovsky wrote: Hi, Some time ago I became interested in compilation of Haskell programs (via Yhc Core) to Erlang to be able to run Haskell code in Erlang environment. Two (somewhat tangental) thoughts come to mind. 1. Should it not, in theory at least, be *relatively* easy to ta

[Haskell-cafe] Experimental compilation of Haskell to Erlang

2008-05-18 Thread Dimitry Golubovsky
Hi, Some time ago I became interested in compilation of Haskell programs (via Yhc Core) to Erlang to be able to run Haskell code in Erlang environment. This experiment seems to have been successful, so I'd like to publish its results for everyone to read and criticize. Results of the experiment