ANNOUNCE: Release of Vital, an interactive visual programming environment for Haskell

[Keith Hanna]

Dear Haskellers,

I am pleased to announce the release of Vital, an interactive visual
programming environment based on Haskell.

Vital provides the user with a workspace within which Haskell expressions
and declarations can be located and their values displayed textually or
graphically. The display is 'live' in the sense that the effects of
graphical Copy and Paste operations carried out displayed values are
automatically reflected in the Haskell source code.

The long-term aim of the Vital project is to make Haskell available in a
form that supports the open-ended, incremental style of program development
that end users (engineers, scientists, analysts, etc.) often prefer. It may
also be useful in teaching Haskell.

This release of the Vital system is available from:
    http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/vital/

The site includes screenshots and a downloadable implementation with demo
programs.

If you happen to have Java installed on your machine, you can (in
principle!) run the Vital interpreter and these demo programs simply by
clicking on this link
    http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/vital/download/start.jnlp

Enjoy!

Keith Hanna