The Glorious Driver (GD) is the part of GHC that orchestrates the interaction of all the other pieces that make up GHC. It supersedes the Evil Driver (ED), which was a Perl script that served the same purpose and was in use until version 4.08.1 of GHC. Simon Marlow eventually slayed the ED and instated the GD.
The GD has been substantially extended for GHCi, i.e., the interactive variant of GHC that integrates the compiler with a (meta-circular) interpreter since version 5.00.
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