On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:54:54PM -0400, Gan Uesli Starling wrote:

Perl and Python both have GUI interfaces, which are handy for publishing little give-away apps, as I used to do quite a lot in Perl/Tk and also in ancient of days on JForth.

Do you mean a GUI library? Or a GUI interface to the interpreter? There are plenty of GUI libraries. _Real World Haskell_ from O'Reilly presents one approach, and is otherwise a good read at http://book.realworldhaskell.org

Also to make give-away apps, there needs to be a turn-key compiler,

The glasgow haskell compiler (ghc) is a compiler.

something into which I'd feed code and out would come an *.exe (albeit quite bloated in size)

well, you can always rename the file to *.exe or whatever else you want. I cannot see how that's relevant. -- :-- Hans Georg