world as value

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj@microsoft.com
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:33:04 -0700


> Not too long ago I looked at 
> http://www.haskell.org/humor/press.html and
> read something about 'leaving hell holes', 'getting real jobs', and in
> particular 'the end of our research efforts'. I don't suppose this
> is really what has happened...

Indeed, it hasn't!  April fools jokes are a wonderful institution.

> With respect to Clean, I would be very happy if it were easy
> to call Clean functions from well known, standard (possibly
> object-oriented) imperative languages. At least that might
> allow me to take one of these nice (commercial) programs
> and write plug-ins for it in Clean.

Try "Calling hell from heaven and heaven from hell"
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/comserve.ps.gz

I bet there's a way to do something similar in Clean.

Simon