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You have just discovered the truth behind "Haskell is a standardized language. Anybody can write a compiler for it."


Exactly. The sad thing is that I tried to install it precisely because it's the sort of thing (interesting new software[1] I want to try!) that I almost never see from the Haskell community. Yet I can't (well, won't), because the only way to use it is to build and install the bleeding edge version of the whole stinking platform from source. Yuck.

[1] Software that integrates well with the existing OS environment, to boot (again, something often sorely lacking inside the Haskell gardens). I mean, it uses git and runs as a self-contained web service. It looks nifty.




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