[Haskell-cafe] GHC for .NET?

[Don Syme]

That's out of date - I abandoned my first effort to do ghc.net in favour
of doing a strict functional language first - F# is the result
(http://research.microsoft.com/projects/fsharp).

We still frequently talk about doing either Haskell.NET or a strict
language much closer to Haskell (perhaps as a stepping stone to doing
Haskell).  But neither are currently active projects.

Thanks
Don


-----Original Message-----
From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org
[mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of John Goerzen
Sent: 29 December 2004 00:51
To: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Subject: [Haskell-cafe] GHC for .NET?

Over at
http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/resources/Default.aspx?ResourceTypeDr
opDownList=Language+vendors&SortDirection=Desc&SortColumnName=CreationDa
te,
I read:

  "The GHC compiler for .NET is currently under development at
  Microsoft Research, Cambridge".

Hmm.  That location sounds familiar :-)  Does anyone know if this is
actually going to happen?  Or if there's any code anywhere, however
experimental, to try?

As a side note, the dotgnu project includes a C-to-CLR compiler,
though it has trouble passing the autoconf stuff in ghc (and I may not
have the expertise to fix it; it is crashing on the alignment tests).

I figure that if I can get portable enough C code out of ghc, and a
runtime compiled to CLR, it should be possible to compile Haskell to
.NET that way.

Anyway, it's just me off on a tangent again.

Thanks,
John
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