Re: effective partial evaluator yet?

2004-07-15 Thread John Sharley
> On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 03:45, John Sharley wrote: > > Noting Hudak's remark in the conclusion of "Modular Domain Specific > > Languages and Tools" > > http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/afp/Papers/dsel-hudak.ps > > that Haskell lacked an effecti

effective partial evaluator yet?

2004-07-14 Thread John Sharley
Noting Hudak's remark in the conclusion of "Modular Domain Specific Languages and Tools" http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/afp/Papers/dsel-hudak.ps that Haskell lacked an effective partial evaluator, and remarks prior to but on the same page as the conclusion that such a thing is very im

F#

2004-05-21 Thread John Sharley
I note this remark on the Microsoft Research site (http://research.microsoft.com/projects/ilx/fsharp.aspx) Purely functional languages like Haskell are excellent within certain niches, but unfortunately some simple programming exercises can quickly turn into problems that require a PhD. to solve.