[Haskell-cafe] Lazy language on JVM/CLR

[Chris Eidhof]

I don't think it's pure. I would definitely use a pure language on the JVM, but IIRC Open Quark / Cal is an impure language. For example, from the library documentation: "printLine :: String -> ()".

-chris

On 9 feb 2010, at 15:31, Tim Wawrzynczak wrote:

> Perhaps this is similar to what you're looking for.
> 
> http://openquark.org/Open_Quark/Welcome.html
> 
> It's a pure, lazy language for the JVM.  I haven't used it myself, but I would imagine that 
> it would have a Java FFI.
> 
> Cheers,
>  - Tim
> 
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Tony Morris <tonymorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have hypothesised a pure, lazy language on the JVM and perhaps the
> .NET CLR with FFI to .NET/Java libraries. I foresee various problems but
> none that are catastrophic; just often requiring a compromises,
> sometimes very unattractive compromises. I have authored several
> libraries in the same vain as pure, lazy programming to run on the JVM
> in Java and Scala programming languages.
> 
> I expect others have forethought and perhaps even experimented with such
> a language. Are there any dangers to be wary of that undo the entire
> endeavour?
> 
> Thanks for any insights.
> 
> --
> Tony Morris
> http://tmorris.net/
> 
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