Hello Café, I don't know if you know conkyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conky_%28software%29. It's a well-known open-source system monitor (a software that displays information on the desktop, like CPU frequency, disk usage, network rate, etc.). It is quite good, but it's very descriptive, and even if you can call shell commands it's clearly not made for being scripted. What I would do is to make a similar system monitor, which base would be compiled Haskell code, but that would be scriptable with some DSL, or already existing interpreted language. I've thought about a Lisp/Scheme language, since those languages are functional, dynamically typed and simple (so enable a quick scripting) and I'm not very keen on making my own DSL What I would like to know is: 1) If you have other solutions 2) How do haskellers usually script their applications