1 This is version 4.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
2 system (GHC). GHC 4.01 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4.
4 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language.
5 Haskell 1.4 is the current version of the language, released in
6 April 1997. The language definition is on the Web at
7 http://www.haskell.org/report/index.html.
9 More information on GHC can be found on its web page
11 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc
13 GHC documentation of interest:
15 * docs/installing.{dvi,html}: How to configure, build, and
18 The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format
19 (.dvi suffix), or HTML.
21 * ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what
22 options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use
23 the profiling facilities, etc.
25 * ghc/docs/libraries/libs.{dvi,html}: Several libraries that are
26 provided by both GHC and Hugs.
28 We welcome your comments and suggestions about this software! Please
29 do not suffer or grumble in silence. The "bug reports" section of the
30 User's Guide says what we would like to know when you report a
35 Simon Peyton Jones ( simonpj@microsoft.com) [our Fearless Leader]
36 Sigbjorn Finne (v-sfinne@microsoft.com) [hired hand]
37 Simon Marlow (t-simonm@microsoft.com) [hired hand]
39 Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):
41 Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero]
42 Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student]
43 Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses]
44 Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade]
45 Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student; at HP]
46 Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP]
47 Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; at St. Andrews]
48 John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; at OGI]
49 Jim Mattson (mattson) [hired hand, AQUA; HP]
50 Darren Moffat (moffatd) [slave, summer '95; at MoD]
51 Will Partain (partain) [GRASP/AQUA; touring with Johnny Cash]
52 Bryan O'Sullivan (bos) [visiting slave, summer '94; at Sun]
53 Alastair Reid (areid) [GHCI god, at Yale]
54 Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student; back in Brazil]
55 David N Turner (dnt) [Linear Types; at An-Teallach]
56 Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP; at Lucent]
58 And many others who've contributed bits of code / bug reports in the past.
60 Cool people who've let us use their machines:
62 sparc-sun-sunos{4,5} PacSoft, Oregon Graduate Institute
64 i386-unknown-linux Charles Krasic, Oregon Graduate Institute
66 i386-*-solaris2 Mark Fanty, CSLU, Oregon Graduate Institute
68 Also thanks to Conal Elliott, Microsoft Research for facilitating the work
69 on the Win32 port of GHC.
71 Simon's projects' acronyms:
72 GRIP ('87-'90): Graph reduction in parallel
73 GRASP ('90-'92): Graph reduction applications support project
74 AQUA ('93- ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach
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