sandra@minster.york.ac.uk (01/22/90)
I'm in search of advice.
Please would you contact me if you have experience of
interfacing with X windows using a pure functional language,
or know of someone who has?
Thanks.
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------larsen@imada.dk (Soren Larsen) (01/24/90)
sandra@minster.york.ac.uk writes: >Please would you contact me if you have experience of >interfacing with X windows using a pure functional language, >or know of someone who has? Could responses to this query please be posted to the net? I am interested as well. Soren Larsen. -- Soren Larsen / larsen@imada.dk Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark phone: +45 66 15 86 00, ext. 2312 / telefax: +45 65 93 26 91
briscoe-duke@CS.YALE.EDU (Duke Briscoe) (01/25/90)
I don't know of anyone who has actually interfaced X to a purely functional language. However, I can point out that some of the issues involved in doing sequences of I/O operations using a non-strict purely functional language are addressed in the specification of I/O for the language Haskell, (see the Haskell report). The Yale Haskell compiler is nearing its release date. Here at Yale, I think some people have been working on interfacing X to T, and our Haskell compiler is built on top of T, so if the people adding X to T have been successful, it would be pretty easy to add X I/O operations as part of the Yale Haskell I/O system. Duke
des@elberton.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) (02/01/90)
In article <12729@cs.yale.edu> briscoe-duke@CS.YALE.EDU (Duke Briscoe) writes: >I don't know of anyone who has actually interfaced X to a purely >functional language. there's some sort of X interface option to Standard ML from Edinburgh - I've not used it but I know there is a X option in building it. I think sml@lfcs.ed.ac.uk is the mail address to contact for details. david shepherd INMOS ltd ps of course this all depends whether you consider SML to be a functional language :-)