Oops, you're right. It's not pure. Mea cupla for not reading more closely. I wonder how it deals with I/O, then? I don't see anything like Haskell's monads or Clean's uniqueness typing... but at a closer look it does appear to have an excellent Java FFI.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Chris Eidhof <ch...@eidhof.nl> wrote: > I don't think it's pure. I would definitely use a pure language on the JVM, > but IIRC Open Quark / Cal is an impure language. For example, from the > library documentation: "printLine :: String -> ()". > > -chris > > On 9 feb 2010, at 15:31, Tim Wawrzynczak wrote: > > > Perhaps this is similar to what you're looking for. > > > > http://openquark.org/Open_Quark/Welcome.html > > > > It's a pure, lazy language for the JVM. I haven't used it myself, but I > would imagine that > > it would have a Java FFI. > > > > Cheers, > > - Tim > > > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Tony Morris <tonymor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have hypothesised a pure, lazy language on the JVM and perhaps the > > .NET CLR with FFI to .NET/Java libraries. I foresee various problems but > > none that are catastrophic; just often requiring a compromises, > > sometimes very unattractive compromises. I have authored several > > libraries in the same vain as pure, lazy programming to run on the JVM > > in Java and Scala programming languages. > > > > I expect others have forethought and perhaps even experimented with such > > a language. Are there any dangers to be wary of that undo the entire > > endeavour? > > > > Thanks for any insights. > > > > -- > > Tony Morris > > http://tmorris.net/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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