1 This is version 2.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
2 system (GHC). This is a major public release. The top-level file
3 "ANNOUNCE-0.28" says more.
5 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language [see
6 SIGPLAN Notices, May 1992]. Some general merits of GHC are given at
9 Documentation of interest:
11 * docs/install_guide/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure,
12 build, and install the system.
14 The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format
15 (.dvi suffix), or GNU Info format (.info); the latter is close to
16 plain ASCII, if that's what you want.
18 * docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what
19 options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use
20 the profiling facilities, etc.
22 * docs/release_notes/release{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this
23 release (and all previous releases).
25 * docs/README: About the other documentation in this release.
27 We welcome your comments and suggestions about this software! Please
28 do not suffer or grumble in silence. The "bug reports" section of the
29 User's Guide (docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}) says what we
30 would like to know when you report a problem.
32 Current AQUA team (all @dcs.glasgow.ac.uk):
34 Sigbjorn Finne (sof) [PhD student]
35 Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student]
36 Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; now a research fellow]
37 Simon Marlow (simonm) [PhD student]
38 Darren Moffat (moffatd) [slave, summer '95]
39 Will Partain (partain) [hired hand, GRASP/AQUA]
40 Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj) [our Fearless Leader]
41 Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, "Bidirectional Analyses"]
42 Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student]
44 Past contributors and/or continuing advisors:
45 Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP; now at Open University]
46 John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; now at OGI]
47 Jim Mattson (mattson) [hired hand, AQUA; just moved to HP]
48 Bryan O'Sullivan (bos) [visiting slave, summer '94; at Sun]
49 Alastair Reid (areid) [GHCI god, now working at Yale]
50 Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP]
52 Cool people who've let us use their machines:
53 hppa1.1-hp-hpux Sam Nelson, Stirling University
54 mips-sgi-irix5 Tim Niblett, Turing Institute, Glasgow
55 sparc-sun-solaris2 Durham University
57 Simon's projects' acronyms:
58 GRIP ('87-'90): Graph reduction in parallel
59 GRASP ('90-'92): Graph reduction applications support project
60 AQUA ('93- ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach
64 GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html
67 glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (general queries)
69 glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list)
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75 Anonymous FTP site: ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow. Mostly
76 mirrored by ftp.cs.chalmers.se and nebula.cs.yale.edu (same
77 directory). Also: src.doc.ic.ac.uk, in
78 computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/.