Hi Mitar, I think that step 1 should link to the Haskell Platform, and not to GHC or Hugs specifically. A beginner should not be using GHC 6.12 yet! greetings, Sjoerd On Dec 29, 2009, at 12:03 AM, Mitar wrote:

Hi!

A friend of mine tried to learn Haskell and asked me for an advice because he had problems with Haskell in 5 steps:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_5_steps

Under "Write your first parallel Haskell program" section there is "import Control.Parallel" which is simply missing in 6.12 and also it is not in documentation anymore:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/index.html

I know that we have moved now to Haskell Platfrom so you can install it additionally (probably), but for a novice it is not really nice that example programs do not compile out of the box. Maybe we could extend this 4th step also with an introduction to Cabal?

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