[Haskell-cafe] Ease of Haskell development on OS X?

[Thomas Davie]

On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:46, Don Stewart wrote:

> tom.davie:
>>
>> On 20 Mar 2009, at 18:08, Don Stewart wrote:
>>
>>> tom.davie:
>>>>
>>>> Other than chose the graphics card carefully, an iMac will do you
>>>> very well.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> This is very useful.
>>>
>>> Could the Mac users add information (and screenshots?) to the OSX  
>>> wiki
>>> page,
>>>
>>>   http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/OSX
>>
>> I'm not really sure there's much to add.  It mostly just works™.
>>
>> Is there something that can be extracted from this discussion to  
>> add to
>> it?
>
> Imagine you're new to Haskell, or the Mac. What do you need to know to
> get started developing new Haskell software? Is that information on  
> the
> page?

Thankfully, yes, all you need to know are either (a) go to haskell.org  
and download it, or (b) download macports, and port install ghc... Now  
you've got a Haskell environment like any other.

I guess I could add a chunk of text about good editors, but I'm not  
sure if that's suitable, is it?

Bob