> At The University of Western Australia, we use Hugs 98 on Macintoshes > to teach Foundations of Computer Science to approximately 300 > first-year students > (http://undergraduate.cs.uwa.edu.au/courses/230.123). Currently we > use Hugs 98 on MacOS 8.6. We're likely to change to MacOS X for 2003, > and we're likely to continue using Hugs 98 on that platform. > > We are considering applying to the Apple University Development Fund > for support to build an integrated development environment for MacOS > X based on the (already-ported) Hugs engine. We're not thinking of a > huge project: probably initially we will build something roughly like > the MacGofer environment (those were the days!), with an integrated > editor, command-line editing, colour-coded syntax a la the > Haskell-mode in emacs, etc. With the size (and general naivety) of > the class, the initial emphasis will be on reliability. > > My questions are: > > 1. Would this be of interest to other groups who use Hugs on Macintoshes? > (Statements of interest may increase our chances of success with AUDF.)
I think this would be of interest to a large portion of the Mac users. The download figures for Hugs-Dec2001 show that a majority of Hugs users on the Mac has switched to MacOS X already. > 2. Is anyone working on this sort of environment already? To my knowledge - no. > 3. Does anyone know any reason that this sort of endeavour might be > harder than we expect? Nope, especially not if the application is set up to launch the standard Hugs distribution as a subprocess. I really hope you'll be able to find funding for this project! Good luck, Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
