| It's too large and complicated to use for small things. E.g., if you
| want to just dash off a little something that needs to evaluate an
| expression... Well, you can use the GHC API. But this is highly
| nontrivial. You get the impression it was added later, and the internal
| structure of GHC is so complex that it makes it hard to write a
| lightweight interface to it.

It's certainly true that GHC's API was added later.  But there is no real 
reason why it should not be easy to use.   We'd be keen to support anyone who 
wanted to help make that happen.  At the moment there's a bit of chicken and 
egg problem.

Simon
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