Mmh, I raised this question some months ago, I thought about Scheme and I've been recommended to use Lua instead of Scheme (as far as I remember, the author of a scheme implementation available on Hackage told it wasn't solid enough).<br>
<br>I would add something: who will script for your application?<br>If it is only the developper (i.e. you), you can use whatever language you want.<br>But if the application is intended to be extended by its users (just like modders for games), then it may be preferable to use a -- still good -- but knowed language. Or at least a language that is easy to learn.<br>
Lua is a nice language, totally simple to learn, and made for scripting.<br>Haskell is a über powerful language, but it is much longer to learn.<br>Scheme is simpler to learn than Haskell, but far more "exotic" than Lua.<br>
Anyway, that's just my opinion.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/8/18 Stephen Sinclair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:radarsat1@gmail.com">radarsat1@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Hemanth Kapila <<a href="mailto:saihemanth@gmail.com">saihemanth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> Can some one please give me a suggestion on the best choice for an embedded<br>
> scripting Language for a haskell application?<br>
> I mean, something like guile/lua for c/c++ and groovy/jruby for java.<br>
> For quite some time, I've been using a lisp-like interpreter that I<br>
> implemented myself. But this is not going too well - going by this road, I<br>
> suspect I will end up with a mule. I am looking for a pony (a declarative<br>
> programming language). I am okay with a donkey too.<br>
> baskell[1] seems interesting. And there's hslua[2].<br>
> Can one use hint[3] like this ?<br>
<br>
</div>How about a tiny lisp or scheme interpreter? Lots of those to choose<br>
from, (including some written in Haskell) and with a few clever macros<br>
you could easily provide a declarative DSL for users to work with. I<br>
see that you mentioned guile, but even tinyscheme would be pretty<br>
powerful and only add a few K to your project.<br>
<br>
This raises the question, what is the smallest (or most embeddable<br>
anyway) Haskell interpreter that can be built?<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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