[Haskell-cafe] Haskell vs Ruby as a scripting language

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

joelr1:
> Is anyone using Haskell as a scripting language in their app?
> 
> I'm thinking of viable it would be to embed ghc in a Mac (Cocoa) app.
> 
> TextMate [1] uses Ruby as the extension language and quite  
> successfully at that. Everybody loves Ruby since it's simple. I need  
> a trading systems language and I'm afraid the combination of ...  
> everything that makes Haskell otherwise great will prove a drawback  
> in my case.
> 
> What do you think?

Embedding GHC-api seems a reasonable thing to do, though definitely
experimental.