Libraries status report

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:33:24 +0100


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Libraries people:

Attached is the status report I'm going to send to Claus Reinke for his
Haskell Communities survey.  Comments/suggestions are welcome - is there
anything I missed out?

Cheers,
	Simon

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