On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 1:06:07 AM UTC+5:30, BartC wrote: > On 05/10/2016 14:43, Rustom Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 7:05:02 PM UTC+5:30, BartC wrote: > > >> That's the one it can't find. Actually it can't seem to import any > >> standard libraries, so the implementation must be screwed up. > >> > >> Or is it because I downloaded the Minimal** rather Full version? The > >> minimal version is already 1.7GB! Can it really be that big and yet not > >> include such basic stuff? If so, what on earth is taking up all the > >> space! (The full version was 10-15% bigger.) > >> > >> (** > >> https://downloads.haskell.org/~platform/8.0.1/HaskellPlatform-8.0.1-minimal-x86_64-setup-a.exe) > > > > Minimal means only compiler: NO libraries except what the compiler needs to > > compile. > > Almost certainly wrong for a beginner’s testing the waters. > > > > You should probably download haskell-platform (full) > > (I've downloaded the full version. Now I have 25,000 files in 2200MB. > And it still doesn't work.
We are now crossing the fuzzy OT boundary! Wont persist too much on list about this. Just a few comments: Many noobs (to programming/Python/computers/life!) appear out here with similar questions — it doesn’t work!!! I would guess most of them feel similar to you. I would like to believe that most of them get out of their difficulty with the help of more experienced responders out here. Likewise Haskell. Go to haskell-cafe or haskell-beginners mailing-lists and you should cross this roadblock easily enough https://mail.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe https://mail.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners You can write to me also — off-list! Just that I dont consider myself a haskell expert. Still less a haskell-on-windows expert For now I will only reiterate haskell-platform without System.* does not seem reasonable. You took a wrong turning somewhere. Is haskell large? Yes! Should it be? OT discussion, relevance of which asymptotically vanishes thanks to Moore’s law -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
