In a message of Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:47:05 +0100, Carl Friedrich Bolz writes:
>Hi Laura!
>
>Laura Creighton wrote:
>[snip]
>> Whether modifying pypy makes sense depends a lot on what sort of
>> language you would like to generate. PyPy was designed for dynamic
>> langauges -- so a functional one, while not impossible, may not be the
>> best fit.
>
>Just about this particular point: I am not sure that functional
>languages per se are a bad fit for PyPy. On the one hand there are
>functional languages such as Erlang that are dynamically typed
>("dynamic" and "functional" are really orthogonal properties). On the
>other hand the implementation of some functional languages uses the
>staticness of the type system mostly "on the outside" to report to the
>user and not "on the inside" to actually implement the language. I guess
>this is especially true for an interpreter of a functional language. I
>might be totally misinformed there, though.
>
>[snip]
>
>Cheers,
>
>Carl Friedrich
I think that all that what I wrote indicates is my belief that
writing a Haskell front end for PyPy would be hard. Thanks for
taking my foot out of my mouth.
Laura
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