Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] compilation to C, not via-C

2009-04-24 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Rick, Friday, April 24, 2009, 10:12:42 PM, you wrote: what you think about JHC? it seems that Timber is close to it > You may wish to look at Timber. It is a Haskell descendant designed for > embedded systems. > Its current default output is C which is then compiled. It is a > very young

Re: Re[4]: [Haskell-cafe] compilation to C, not via-C

2009-04-24 Thread Rick R
I really like the idea of the region based mem management (and other GC options) in JHC. It could potentially remove the need for any runtime at all, which is nice. Two fundamental differences of Timber is that it is purely strict, and not pure functional. This makes the implementation and use of