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3 The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1
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6 The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There
7 have been a number of significant changes since the last major release,
10 * Some new language features have been implemented:
11 * Record syntax: wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation
12 * Generalised quasi-quotes
13 * Generalised list comprehensions
16 * Type families have been completely re-implemented
18 * Now comes with Haddock 2, which supports all GHC extensions
20 * Parallel garbage collection
22 * Base provides extensible exceptions
24 * The GHC API is easier to use
26 * External core (output only) now works again
28 * Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) comes as part of GHC
30 The full release notes are here:
32 http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html
37 The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
39 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
41 We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
42 platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
45 Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
46 system isn't available yet, please try again later.
52 Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
54 GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
55 an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
56 platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
57 development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
58 facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
59 language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
60 language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
61 BSD-style open source license.
63 A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
64 specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
65 contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
66 Haskell home page (see below).
69 On-line GHC-related resources
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72 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
74 GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
75 GHC developers' home page http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
76 Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
82 The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
85 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
87 Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
88 difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
91 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
97 We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source
98 code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are
99 available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac:
101 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
107 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
108 the web interfaces at
110 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
111 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
113 There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
114 www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
116 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
118 Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too:
120 http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel
122 Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on
123 reporting bugs can be found here:
125 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug