64-bit windows version?

[Simon Marlow]

skaller wrote:

> GHC needs to target *professional windows programmers*.
> They're going to have VS installed already. Haskell is far
> too important a language (IMHO) not to have an entry in
> the commercial programming arena.
> 
> Commercial programming is in a bad way! It NEEDS stuff like
> Haskell available.
> 
> BTW: I don't really like Windows .. but I want to see Haskell
> succeed. Trying to do Haskell on Windows without MSVC++ toolchain
> is like trying to work on Linux without binutils... :)

This is a fine point, and probably the biggest reason for doing a Windows native 
port.  I'd like to see it happen, but we need help!

Cheers,
	Simon