On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 10:52 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
It is obscure, and I agree it's very hard to justify putting
more
languages in the mix.
Haskell has a few advantages over C. It's very easy to write a
wrapper in Haskell that checks if file 'foo' is newer than the binary
that it's trying to execute, and if so, to compile the new file, load
up the new binary and keep running.
You would have to have very good arguments to require a compiler
collection just to boot a system.
Nils
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