[Haskell-cafe] COM and Haskell

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Thu Apr 19 12:40:10 EDT 2007


On 19/04/07, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> There is only one library: hdirect. But I don't know its status there
> have been some posts and some authors may have chnaged it.
> I'd suggest grepping some mailinglist archives (you can find them all on
> haskell.org) or wait till someone else gives a more helpful reply ;)

I tried quite a while ago to build hdirect, and failed. It looked like
it didn't quite support the then-current GHC (6.2???) As far as I can
tell, the library hasn't been updated since, so I doubt there's much
hope. I'd love to be proved wrong...

> If you application will be only small you'll be faster using VBScript.

Or Python or Perl, or (probably, I'm not sure) Ruby. Or likely many others.

Sad, but true...

Paul.


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