I ended up discussing in university with the person next to me about Haskell. He's an old-timer who's even been to conferences, but it's a long time since he's looked at Haskell. He asked me to write "what's new in Haskell", but I'm not too experienced myself. I didn't realize asking how long it's been for him, but he mentioned about new fronts in optimizing compilers and specifically mentioned a compiler that could compile to legible C. I've been following Haskell only for a couple of years, so my intuition tells me that he means `-fvia-c`, and I mentioned to him that it's about to be deprecated and replaced with the llvm back-end. I also mentioned hackage, but he hadn't heard of it. He mentioned that he'd like to use Haskell for his master's thesis, but we got a interrupted when he said what it was about. Formal something or other. I trust you fellow Haskellers have better understanding of the time frame, and can think of something interesting new features, libraries, communities etc. that's since been emerged. I ask you to give me something interesting to give him and reinstate his interest. -- Mats Rauhala MasseR