palm?

[M. Parker]

What about a port to Windows CE (i.e., for Pocket PC's). Or even better y=
et,=20
hugs for Pocket PC!

-Matt

On Sunday 09 March 2003 11:27 pm, Tony Sloane wrote:
> John Meacham wrote:
> > This may be an intractable goal, but is any project out there
>
> anywhere
>
> > close to a working haskell 98(ish) implementation for the Palm
>
> Pilot?
>
> > There would probably have to be some compromises, like 16 bit Ints
>
> and
>
> > perhaps some other restrictions, but i don't think its impossible to
>
> get
>
> > some sort of lazy implementation to work on such a resource starved
> > architecture so has anyone given it a shot?
>
> Here at Macquarie University we have done some work on this.  Matthew
> Tarnawsky  ported the nhc98 runtime to the Palm as part of his 2002
> honours project working with myself and Dom Verity.  With this port
> it's possible to compile programs on a desktop machine and load the
> bytecode onto a Palm for execution.  There is a limited interface to
> the Palm GUI libraries.
>
> Having said that, there is much to be done.  The current
> implementation has only been lightly tested and there are a number of
> design decisions that we want to revisit, particularly relating to how
> garbage collection works.  We are starting to port the work to a
> recent version of nhc98 and are looking at some of these questions.
>
> We hope to have something for others to play with in a few months.
> Stay tuned to this list for an announcement.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony Sloane