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We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
-Compiler (GHC), version 3.00. Source and Binary distribution is freely
+Compiler (GHC), version 3.00. The source distribution is freely
available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
+ What's new
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-(ToDo)
+GHC 3.00 is a source-only release. There are no binaries available at
+the current time: in the interests of spending more time hacking and
+less time building distributions, we're shoving this one out as
+quickly as possible so that intrepid hackers can try it out.
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+Important new features:
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+ * Multi-parameter type classes. Please try 'em out; we'd
+ appreciate the feedback.
+ Mailing lists
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To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either
-version 0.29 or 2.02 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
+version 0.29 or 2.10 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
* alpha-dec-osf{2,3}
* hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}