Oh, wow, I'd never seen gambitREPL, just the (pretty terrible) iScheme. That's pretty neat. It's probably quite doable, then, but the dev would either be forced into Hugs, or they'd have to implement a more portable GHC. Does such a thing exist already?
On Jun 18, 2011, at 3:03 PM, John Velman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:44:01PM +0400, MigMit wrote: > > Well, this is my point. THERE ARE 3 SCHEME INTERPRETERS in the iPad app > store. > > They run on factory iPads, not jailbroken. > > The GUI for the gambitREPL (Read, Evaluate, Print, Loop) is just like a > console. Input a scheme expression. CR. Answer appears, new prompt. > > In haskell we need to allow for some way to input layout. I don't recall > how Hugs handles this, if at all. > > There are probably 5 or 10 people out there who want to learn functional > programming, and they are studying Scheme on their iPads. Or Ocaml. > > I don't forsee doing production programming ON THE IPAD, but experimenting, > testing some functions, and, by the way, learning Haskell. > > While I'm fantasizing, something like Hugs or ghci with SOE would really be > neat. > > Sorry for shouting :-) > > John Velman > >> Well, Haskell is fun, isn't it? And that's what iPhone is perfect for: fun. >> >> Back when I had iPod Touch 1G (jailbroken, of course), I used to run Hugs on >> it. Now I would love to see a Haskell interpreter in the App Store — which, >> by the way, is possible; as there are Scheme interpreters there, why not >> Haskell? >> >> Отправлено с iPhone >> >> Jun 18, 2011, в 22:27, Jack Henahan <jhena...@uvm.edu> написал(а): >> >>> I suppose you could make a GUI, by why? Given that you'll have to be >>> working on a jailbroken device, anyway, one could just as well use one of >>> the numerous terminal emulators now floating around for jailbroken iOS. >>> That said, the idea of people writing Haskell on phones and iPads and so on >>> makes me just a little bit grinny. >>> >>> On Jun 18, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Alexander Solla wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM, John Velman <vel...@cox.net> wrote: >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Since the iPhone OS is pretty much OS X for ARM, and GHC apparently now >>>> supports cross-compilation, you can compile GHC for iOS. I guess you >>>> could cross compile Hugs with GCC. Doing so probably isn't trivial, but >>>> it should be straightforward. >>>> >>>> I bet you could even use Xcode to make a graphical user interface to GHCi. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
