Re: [Haskell-cafe] What's the deal with Clean?

Martin DeMello wrote:

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:

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(4) It comes with its own IDE. I don't think it can do anything much that Haskell tools can't do, but if you don't like looking for things, it's a help.

And a well-integrated GUI toolkit. If it weren't for the Windows bias I'd have definitely taken the time to learn the language.

I'm dissapointed that Haskell doesn't have *more* of a Windows bias. It _is_ the platform used by 90% of the desktop computers, after all. (As unfortunate as that undeniably is...) In particular, I really wish we could make is so that stuff from Hackage actually compiles on Windows. (Disclaimer: Stuff written in Haskell compiles just fine. It's FFI bindings that unanimously refuse to compile.) It's also somewhat irritating that the I/O libraries have a few quirks apparently related to mingw32. But hey, that one at least should be fixable...