Could you please give a little more insight on Haskell and why it is/would be so good? I've never heard of it.
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:23, Matt Fowles wrote: > All~ > > If I recall correctly, GCC supports Haskell, which is an ideal language > for Parrot. > > Matt > > Simon Glover wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Butler, Gerald wrote: > > > > > >>The important point is that the starting language must have semantics which > >>treat variables, object, etc. as abstract entities to be manipulated not > >>*memory locations* to be accessed arbitrarily. Then, the parse stage must spit > > > > > > This requirement probably means that Fortran is a non-starter, as a > > number of its features (equivalence, common blocks) do rely on a specific > > layout of variables in memory. > > > > Simon > > > > > > >
