[Haskell-cafe] Lazy language on JVM/CLR

Tim Wawrzynczak inforichland at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 10:52:35 EST 2010


Oops, you're right.  It's not pure.  Mea cupla for not reading more
closely.  I wonder how it deals with I/O, then?  I don't see anything like
Haskell's monads or Clean's uniqueness typing...  but at a closer look it
does appear to have an excellent Java FFI.

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Chris Eidhof <chris at eidhof.nl> wrote:

> 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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