Re: writing extensions in a functional language

Dear Gregely,

I sadly speak no SML, so the transpiler is no help for me :-)

But I (and I hope others on the list, too) would be interested in your
results with that approach.

Also, what we both will need to do, whether transpiling of not, is
finding out how the API works in JavaScript. It seems not to be to
difficult, but almost all examples are Basic; some in Python and Java…

Jan

Am 11.03.2017 um 20:30 schrieb Gergely Buday:
> 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... 
> > [SNIP]
> > 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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