[Haskell-cafe] What makes Haskell difficult as .NET?

[Richard O'Keefe]

On May 15, 2010, at 5:40 AM, Daryoush Mehrtash wrote:
> the speaker talks about F# on .Net platform.   Early on in the talk  
> he says that they did F# because haskell would be "hard to make as  
> a .Net language".    Does anyone know what features of Haskell make  
> it difficult as .Net language?

Laziness is the obvious one:  a plain integer type in an ML-like  
language
can map directly onto a .Net primitive value type, whereas Int in  
Haskell
has to map onto something boxed.