[Haskell-cafe] Re: haskell parser for java bytecode?

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:02:47AM -0400, Kimberley Burchett wrote:
> Jerzy Karczmarczuk asked:
> > Kimberley Burchett writes:
> > >I'm interested in using haskell to do static analysis of java bytecode.
> > >To my surprise, I wasn't able to find any existing haskell libraries
> > >for parsing java .class files.
> >
> >Why for goodness' sake, people interested in Haskell *should* worry
> >about parsing of Java bytecode chunks?
> 
> Are you asking why I'm interested in bytecode instead of source code, or 
> are you asking why I'm interested in Java at all?

Jerzy is asking why you are surprised. There's nothing wrong in being
interested in Java/bytecode, but it's a bit strange to expect every
language to have a library for reading Java bytecode.

Best regards
Tomasz