As such, I would like to see a focus on making Haskell great for web application and web service development.
Right. On the server side, this is "easy" (and people have done it, see the example HTML server, and I've used it to code up a game server, used for a students' programming contest here (*)). I would love to see Haskell used on the client side, that is, I want Haskell applets. This would probably require that the user downloads Hugs as a netscape-plugin? Or ghc emits Java (byte-)code? And in both cases: what GUI should we use? In case you wonder - this application is "purely academic": the applets should help my students to understands certain concepts in theoretical computer science. Of course I would then welcome their questions on "how did you program this"... (for an example, see the PCP Puzzle http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~pcp/ but that is a Java program. I want to program exactly this kind of applet in Haskell!) (*) the server itself runs fine, but the Java applet to play/display games http://theopc.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~connect/ currently is broken :-) -- -- Johannes Waldmann ---- http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~joe/ -- -- joe@informatik.uni-leipzig.de -- phone/fax (+49) 341 9732 204/252 --