OT: haskell, .net, microsoft and vs

[Andrew Kennedy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel Perry [mailto:NPerry@mac.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 7:44 PM
> To: Haskell Mailing List
> Subject: Re: OT: haskell, .net, microsoft and vs
...
> As part of Project 7, a Microsoft project with various language
> developers during the development of .NET a number of languages added=20
> VS support, ranging from simple syntax colouring and "makefile"=20
> project support to full integration. Mondrian, the simple functional=20
> scripting language, was one of these which I undertook, it's at the=20
> simple end. However I did not also add support for Haskell (I did a=20
> partial port [not speed optimised and many libraries missing] of GHC=20
> to .NET using Mondrian as a backend). Other languages integrated=20
> include Fortran (Salford), Cobol (Fujitsu) and Component Pascal (QUT).
>=20
Work-in-progress: VS integration of SML.NET
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/TSG/SMLNET/)
We use COM interop and a bootstrapped (subset) compiler to get syntax
highlighting, incremental parsing and type inference, intellisense of
SML and .NET library functions, and build support. Also some support for
debugging (breakpoints, stack trace, locals). We hope to release this
implementation at some point.

- Andrew.