[Haskell-cafe] Serialization of (a -> b) and IO a

[Stephen Tetley]

On 12 November 2010 20:44, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Just today I was thinking about how useful it would be if you could send a
> block of code from one PC to another to execute it remotely. The fact that
> you can't do this is basically why there's no distributed Haskell yet,
> despite what an obviously good idea that would be. It would be really cool
> if we could do this.

There was Distributed Haskell a while back[*], search for work by Frank Huch.

[*] Maybe it wasn't "migratory" which I think is what you are wanting
- you'd have to check the tech reports.