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From: briscoe-duke@CS.YALE.EDU (Duke Briscoe)
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Subject: Re: X windows and functional languages
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Date: 24 Jan 90 19:45:29 GMT
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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