[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and scripting

[Limestraël]

Hello Café,

I don't know if you know
conky<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conky_%28software%29>.
It's a well-known open-source system monitor (a software that displays
information on the desktop, like CPU frequency, disk usage, network rate,
etc.).
It is quite good, but it's very descriptive, and even if you can call shell
commands it's clearly not made for being scripted.
What I would do is to make a similar system monitor, which base would be
compiled Haskell code, but that would be scriptable with some DSL, or
already existing interpreted language.
I've thought about a Lisp/Scheme language, since those languages are
functional, dynamically typed and simple (so enable a quick scripting) and
I'm not very keen on making my own DSL

What I would like to know is:
1) If you have other solutions
2) How do haskellers usually script their applications
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