I've had very similar experiences -- especially with the operators. I'm also nervous about the "DLL Hell" the article mentioned. I want to be able to build my

I've had very similar experiences -- especially with the operators. I'm also nervous about the "DLL Hell" the article mentioned. I want to be able to build my programs for the next 10 years without having to worry about dependencies going away. I believe this is because cabal doesn't generate a manifest of the exact versions your library/application depends on (unlike Ruby's bundler's Gemfile.lock file). Hopefully this gets resolved soon.