Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions

[Weddington, Eric]

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> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Gabriel Dos
> Reis
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:48 AM
> To: Weddington, Eric
> Cc: Georg-Johann Lay; address@hidden; Joerg Wunsch
> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions
> 
> 
> Essentially, we would like to:
>   (1) "spice up" our programming class projects with
>         robots programming -- many of our students are native C++ speakers,
>         and AVR-based robots are cheap :-)
> 
>   (2) as a research project, some of my students would like to
>         program AVR microcontrollers in Haskell to explore the
>         "functional reactive programming" paradigm.  However, GHC,
>         the most popular Haskell compiler does not support AVR and I
>         do not think it is going to do so in the near future, based on
> discussions
>          I have had with GHC key developers.  So, a subgroup
>         of students (under my direction) has set up to write a
> compiler for a subset
>         of Haskell targetting AVR.  This is quite an exciting research
> project.
> 

I'm sorry, I forgot to ask: Is this for a university class? If so, what 
University?

Thanks,
Eric Weddington