On Tuesday 30 June 2009 10:30:20 Attila Szegedi wrote:
> Given how both Erik Meijer and Simon Peyton-Jones are Microsoft employees,
> if it were possible, I have no doubts they would have since made it happen.

Microsoft Research put a huge amount of effort into trying to reconcile 
Haskell and .NET in their Haskell.NET project. Note that they were not just 
trying to implement Haskell on .NET but were actually changing the VM to 
suite Haskell and they were still unable to create something usable. However, 
their work culminated in the early adoption of some features that have become 
critically important today, most notably tail call elimination.

Don Syme described in an interview with Sadek Drobi some of the lessons he 
learned from their work on Haskell.NET:

  http://www.infoq.com/interviews/F-Sharp-Don-Syme

-- 
Dr Jon Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?e

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