Ketil Malde ketil at malde.org writes:
> I use Ubuntu. Most stuff is fairly up-to-date, but even with six-month releases, it's lagging the cutting edge, and GHC is still 6.12. Thus, I tend to install development stuff via Cabal these days, which at least partly evens out the playing ground between different distributions.

I hope latest GHC (itself + standard libraries) can always be compiled from source on Ubuntu these days?

> Let me know if you would like opinions on Emacs vs vi!

I know vi, but it is just that I got used to Emacs which is my main IDE for most PL that I work with and for many years already )