[Haskell-cafe] Calling Haskell from other languages?

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> writes:

    >> Read the FFI Report.  It is relatively readable and
    >> comprehensive.  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/
    >> 
    >> And yes, you will have to use C as an intermediary, though you
    >> may not have to actually write any C.  You simply expose the
    >> Haskell functions in whatever form the other language expects.
    >> You'll almost certainly have to write marshalling code of some
    >> sort.

    John> I often like to look at these situations as an opportunity
    John> to introduce modularity and piping.  Do you really need them
    John> running in the same address space?

Good point.

And thanks everyone for your help. I have enough to go on now.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire