We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
Compiler (GHC), version 2.04. Source distribution is freely available
-via the World-Wide Web and anon. FTP; details below.
+via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
Release 2.04 represent work done through May '97; highlights include:
- * Data constructors can now have polymophic fields, and ordinary
- functions can have polymoprhic arguments. Details on
+ * Data constructors can now have polymorphic fields, and ordinary
+ functions can have polymorphic arguments. Details on
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/quantification.html
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/guards.html
* Compiler can now compile itself (i.e., no real dependence on
- the Haskell 1.2 compiler anymore (version 0.29)).
+ the Haskell 1.2 compiler anymore (version 0.29)). The release has
+ been tested with 2.03 and 0.29, not 2.02.
* Faster compilation
- Compilation speeds has improved since 2.02, although it still slower
- than GHC-0.29, the Good Old Compiler. (the gap is narrowing, though!)
+ Compilation speeds has improved since 2.02, although it is still slower
+ than the Good Old Compiler, GHC-0.29. (the gap is narrowing, though!)
* Code quality is better, the simplifier and inlining machinery has been
refurbished. Not sure how much better.
Heroic Efforts of Andr\'e Santos <alms@di.ufpe.br>.
* It has been tested against a large suite of (mostly) Haskell 1.2
- programs (the NoFib suite). Bunch of bugs related to new
- Haskell 1.4 has been weeded out.
+ programs (the NoFib suite). A fair chunk of bugs has been fixed.
* A couple of Haskell 1.4 features are still incompletely supported,
notably polymorphic strictness annotations, and Unicode.
* sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
* mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
* i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
- * powerpc-ibm-aix
+ * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
-guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work.
+guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
+an on-line version can be found at
+ http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-doc/install-guide.html
+
+
+EOF