I find it sad... that people like Erik Meijer, Mark Lentczer... (even Doug McIllroy recently demonstrated that there are 2⁹⁹ dialects of haskell!!) are not being heeded

And this complaint could be greatly alleviated with one little leaf drawn from racket -- language-packs: teachpacks

Along with the single lightweight directive #lang

It may naturally be asked how is #lang different from ghc's language "-X" options

A teachpack would be a bunch of coherent -X options maybe along with a suitable prelude