Hi
Data.Binary is the low level frameworks, now people can pick up the rest. Last time I checked, there's about half a dozen "binary" packages. All incompatible. All with different design. Seriously not obvious which one to use...
Data.Binary is the answer, http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/binary.html
The Unix stuff does all this, and the win32 stuff does it on Windows. Mmm... looks lovely. Any danger of documentation?
msdn.microsoft.com - if you know the C API, you can figure out the Haskell one. No one should ever have to learn the Win32 API though, its horrible.
Still, everybody keeps muttering that "functional is the next big thing", and Erlang is taking over the world, so many Haskell's day will come.
I quite like the fact that I'm massively more productive than most other programmers - at the end of the day that's what will make me worth more money and happier than everyone else. Haskell might never be popular, that's fine by me - I like elegance much more than cheerleading :-) * Thanks Neil * Of course, all the cheerleading leads to more libraries which makes me more productive and happier, so its all a win in the end.