| 2) Why can't we as a community create "front-end" tools such as this | that can be used with several compiler back-ends? I must admit I was | disappointed when the grand "Hugs/GHC merger" was abandoned (I'm not | criticizing the decision, just expressing my disappointment). Me too. But don't worry: GHCi is showing signs of life, and it'll provide exactly the functionality that the Hugs/GHC merger was going to offer. | In fact, | whatever happened to the effort to add Haskell to one of languages | supported by Microsoft's Visual IDE? Daan Leijen did quite a lot, but I'm not sure where he's got to. Daan? Simon