writing extensions in a functional language

Gergely Buday buday.gergely at uni-eszterhazy.hu
Sat Mar 11 19:30:49 UTC 2017


Dear Jan,

a way to go would be to use SML to JS, a Standard ML to JavaScript 
compiler:

https://github.com/melsman/mlkit/blob/master/README_SMLTOJS

Would you be interested in doing experiments using this?

Best

- Gergely

2017-03-11 19:06 időpontban jan ezt írta:

> Hello,
> 
> I am also on my way to learn to write extensions (hopefully) -
> currently, I am using Javascript to learn it.
> 
> While not a typical functional language (like Haskell or Lisp), it has
> many functional features (historically inspired by Self and Scheme),
> lambda, currying, younameit... works pretty well and there are many
> libraries which extend it further in this direction. There are also 
> some
> numerical and statistical libraries for it.
> 
> The syntax looks sadly rather differently than ML (which is only
> superficial, but still has an effect at least on me).
> 
> Jan
> 
> Am 11.03.2017 um 15:45 schrieb Heiko Tietze: There is also a Delphi 
> binding at https://sourceforge.net/projects/uno-pas-bridge/. 
> Unfortunately it wasn't updated for years and a quick test with 
> Freepascal failed.
> 
> On 02/16/2017 11:28 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote: On 02/15/2017 12:12 PM, 
> Gergely Buday wrote: I am interested in writing an extension to Libre 
> Office,
> particularly Calc.
> 
> I would like to do it in a functional language.
  [SNIP]

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