[Haskell-cafe] Is Hugs dead?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Evgeny Tarasov wrote:

> By the way, I'd like to use hugs extensively as sysadmin's universal 
> scripting language.

Hugs is better in this respect because it starts much faster than runghc.

> I think, it could be a great killer feature. But as far as I know, it 
> doesn't have any facilities to run external programs and process their 
> stdout, stderr end exit code.
>
> Hugs is much more suitable for the task then ghc because of its 
> compactness and portability. And some people think that haskell code is 
> easier to maintain than shell scripts, perl or even python.

For GHC-6.0 and GHC-6.2, that is before runInteractiveProcess, we had the 
package:
   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shell-pipe

Maybe this can be used for Hugs.