[Haskell-cafe] SoC project: Python-Haskell bridge - request for feedback

Bulat Ziganshin bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 18:33:47 EDT 2008


Hello Dan,

Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 1:29:51 AM, you wrote:

>> you forget about ability to use Python as scripting language inside
>> Haskell programs. look at HsLua library as example of this

> This is much less interesting for those (like me) who, once in Haskell,
> don't feel the least inclined to go back to Python. Missing libraries in
> Haskell (for my applications) are usually also missing in Python and 
> need FFI to some (usually numeric) library written in C/C++ anyway. Why
> do data marshalling twice?

Python, unlike Haskell, can be compiled on the fly



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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com



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