I am very new to Haskell, and I am using this webpage as a learning source: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_5_steps#Install_Haskell I downloaded and instal GHC and it works as was said. I tried to write my first Haskell program: prelude> "Hello World!" "Hello World, World!" it works as said. Then: (This is the problem) I would like to create a source code and compile it using GHC compiler. I opened a notepad and type this program: main = putStrLn "Hello, Word!" I saved this file as hello.hs in the same directory GHCi 6.6.1 was installed. When I tried to compile it as instucted on the webpage ( $ ghc -o hello hello.hs), I got this error message. <interactive>: 1:0: parse error on input '$' please what am I doing wrong. Thank you and sorry for your time. Tope