Roll Your Own Window Manager

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This article has further fueled my interest to learn Haskell.

If you're interested in tiling window managers, take a look at dwm or wmii. Their basic interface is essentially the same (xmonad was based on dwm, IIRC), but written in C.

wmii has a lot of extra extensibility involving a plan9-inspired networked file system interface (libixp) and pipes, and you can script it in any language you want.

While I'm not discouraging you from investigating Haskell (it's not really my style, but it's a very interesting language), there are probably better uses for it.

xmonad is significantly shorter than wmii. According to http://blip.tv/file/324976 wmii has aroun 6k lines of source while xmonad spots a mere 0.5k (in version 0.5, but more recent versions like 0.9 should still be in the territory of 1k loc.)

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