[Haskell-beginners] Hello World

[Brent Yorgey]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 05:40:14PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
> I'm learning Haskell as a background activity, and just wanted to
> introduce myself and get the list subscription stuff sorted out.
> 
> My primary machine runs Windows 7.  I have Haskell Platform working
> OK including GCHi-Win, but could not get Lekseh to work.  However,
> trying that showed me the world of Cabel, and I have yet to find an
> introduction/tutorial on that.  The Haskell Platform comes with some
> libraries, but doesn't have a Cabel tool or anything I'd reconize as
> a repository, like Lekseh was setting up.
> 
> It's said that the best feature of Perl is CPAN.  I suppose Cabel is
> Haskell's equivalent of that, or aims to be.  So, what's up with
> that?  Starting from a blank prompt (that can run ghc successfully)
> now what?

In particular, the counterpart to CPAN is called Hackage, and can be found here:

  http://hackage.haskell.org/

With the Haskell Platform you should have a tool called 'cabal' which
will actually fetch and install packages from Hackage for you (among
other things).

-Brent