[Haskell-cafe] Haskell *interpreter* on iPad? (Scheme and Ocaml are there)

John Velman velman at cox.net
Sat Jun 18 19:46:03 CEST 2011


Well, I'm not interested in a lisp interpreter written in Haskell.  Nor am
I (at the moment) interested in writing an iPad app in Haskell.

I changed the subject to clarify.

What I would like to see is A Haskell Interpreter on the iPad.  

To further emphasize, I'd like to type in (or paste in) Haskell code and
have it executed on the iPad.  To reiterate:  Something like Hugs, or ghci
on the iPad.

By the way, there are three Scheme interpreters in the iPad app store.  In
addition to the two I previously mentioned, there is iScheme.

- John Velman



On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:43:45PM -0400, Don Stewart wrote:
> See e.g.
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IPhone
> 
> <http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IPhone>
> https://github.com/dpp/LispHaskellIPad
> 
> <https://github.com/dpp/LispHaskellIPad>
> 
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 12:18 PM, John Velman <velman at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > There are (at least) two Scheme interpreters for iPad at the iTunes store:
> > PixieScheme and GambitREPL.  Both allow entry of scripts, by typing or
> > pasting.  The Gambit community is very busy trying to expand the usefulness
> > of their interpreter.  Both have pretty good interfaces.
> >
> > There is also an Ocaml app, but I don't know or want to know Ocaml, and the
> > interface looks very unfriendly.
> >
> > I'd really like to have something like this in Haskell, in the "education"
> > pot, as is the GambitREPL.  Hugs is written in C, if I recall correctly.
> > Would it be possible to compile Hugs for the iPad processor, taking out
> > enough system calls to make it acceptable?
> >
> > John Velman
> >
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