dmehrtash: > In this presentation > > http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/unrestricted/colloq/details.cgi?id= > 907 > > the speaker talks about F# on .Net platform. Early on in the talk he says > that they did F# because haskell would be "hard to make as a .Net language". > > Does anyone know what features of Haskell make it difficult as .Net language?
The issue here I believe is primarily the desire to interoperate with any .NET library, with zero effort by the developer. Most .NET libraries are imperative, use mutable state -- so binding to those is less fun, and a bit more labor intensive, in Haskell -- though the FFI can certainly do it pretty easily. It also moves most of the .NET libraries into the IO monad, making them less useful. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
