<div dir="auto"><div>Re the primary school kids using Haskell, that is amazing Harendra. Well done.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I wonder what Alan Kay and his team would think - Haskell is the new Smalltalk!<br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 Aug 2017 11:27 am, "Harendra Kumar" <<a href="mailto:harendra.kumar@gmail.com">harendra.kumar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Stuart,<div><br></div><div>I am not sure if there is a unanimous preferred way of installing Haskell. I guess the answer depends on who you ask. My preferred choice is "stack". I am no university prof or a school teacher but I do teach Haskell to my 6th grader and 2nd grader kids. I gave them a laptop (Mac OS) and told them how to install "stack" and they did it in a jiffy. They have been using it for several months with no complaints whatsoever. If little kids can do it I guess it should not be a problem for univ students.</div><div><br></div><div>I have also been using stack myself for my professional work and it resonates well with my own thinking of how a package (and language tools) manager should behave. Additionally the stack team is very responsive if you want to get something fixed. When I started learning Haskell a few years ago I really enjoyed contributing to stack thanks to Michael Sloan's quick responses and encouraging feedback on the PRs.</div><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-harendra</div></font><div class="elided-text"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 August 2017 at 22:16, Stuart A. Kurtz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart@cs.uchicago.edu" target="_blank">stuart@cs.uchicago.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Colleagues,<br>
<br>
What's the status of the Haskell Platform? Is it still the/a preferred way to install a working Haskell system? What is the update status of the Platform? [I note that the platform is at 8.0.2, whereas GHC is at 8.2.1, so I'm really asking if there's a roadmap/timeline for updates.]<br>
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I write because I teach an introductory class in Haskell, and we've long used the Platform as a way to get the system up and running on the student's systems. I'm at a quarter school, but I have to think this is a sharp question for anyone trying to teach a Haskell course at a semester school.<br>
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Is the Platform still the best way to do this? Will cabal continue to be a reasonable choice as default package manager?<br>
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Thank you for your consideration.<br>
<br>
Peace,<br>
<br>
Stu<br>
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