[Haskell-cafe] Python?

[Bjorn Lisper]

>Bjorn Lisper wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Finally I found some time to reply to this posting. A couple of years ago we
>>did something called "Data Field Haskell", which is Haskell extended with a
>>generalized form of arrays called data fields. Much of the purpose was to
>>investigate convenient and general syntax for array constructions.
>>...
>>The forall-construct is intended to provide a simple and powerful syntax for
>>operations on data fields. Let's see below how it matches Jerzy's desired
>>features of an array language:

Jerzy:

>I AM IMPRESSED. 
>
>Now, I know the existence of pages within
>
>http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/projects/DFH/
>
>but you say that the project is dormant. Is there *anything* going on?
>THANKS!

Alas, no. I have neither time nor funding to work with Data Field Haskell
now. Having said that, I think there are a lot of different things that
could be done: polishing the programming model, implementation issues, code
optimization, ...

Björn