[Haskell-cafe] What is simplest extension language to implement?

Luke Palmer lrpalmer at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 13:52:03 EDT 2010


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com> wrote:
>> ehm. I missed something and ghc api is well documented and stable ?
>
> There are other ways of adding Haskell as a scripting language - bundling
> ghc is not necessary.

Do tell.

>> It is inacceptable for scripting language, faced to no-programmers. Such
>> languages must be as plain and regular, as possible.
>
> We give Haskell as a embedded scripting language to non-programmers, and
> they love it.  They especially like the strong typing, which finds their
> bugs before they ever get the chance to run their script.  The terseness and
> lack of similarity to other programming languages is another benefit.
>
> Regards,
>    Malcolm
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