[Haskell-cafe] Ideas

[C.M.Brown]

> Definitely! It's really cool stuff. But something like that for real Haskell
> (e.g. GHC) would be even better :) I could be an offline downloadable
> application. It would be a very nice tool: create postscript (or PDF, or
> LaTex, whatever rich text format) documents with Haskell "boxes" inside.
> Real literate programming... Oh well ;)

I would personally say Haskell 98 is "real" Haskell (well, until Haskell
Prime comes out). It becomes difficult for tool developers to cater for
non-standard languages; Haskell is quite complicated enough without having to cater
for all the little nuances and idiomatic extensions that are constantly
added with each release of a compiler.

I believe it does work as an offline downloadable tool...

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/vital/install/index.html

Chris.