[project @ 1999-07-14 10:01:43 by simonmar]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / README

diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README
index 566b280..617620a 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/README
+++ b/ghc/README
@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
-This is version 4.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
-system (GHC).  GHC 4.01 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4.
+The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
+============================
+
+(this file is fptools/ghc/README in a source distribution, and
+fptools/README in a binary distribution).
+
+GHC is a batch compiler for Haskell 98.  See the file ANNOUNCE for
+information on the current version.
 
 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language.
-Haskell 1.4 is the current version of the language, released in 
-April 1997.  The language definition is on the Web at
-http://www.haskell.org/report/index.html.
+Haskell 98 is the current version of the language, released in 
+December 1998.  The language definition is on the Web at
+http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/Haskell/haskell98.html
 
 More information on GHC can be found on its web page
 
-       http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc
+       http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
 
 GHC documentation of interest:
 
@@ -34,7 +40,8 @@ Current GHC team:
 
     Simon Peyton Jones ( simonpj@microsoft.com)    [our Fearless Leader]
     Sigbjorn Finne     (v-sfinne@microsoft.com)    [hired hand]
-    Simon Marlow       (t-simonm@microsoft.com)    [hired hand]
+    Simon Marlow       (simonmar@microsoft.com)    [hired hand]
+    Julian Seward       (v-julsew@microsoft.com)    [hired hand]
 
 Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):
 
@@ -74,14 +81,14 @@ Simon's projects' acronyms:
     AQUA  ('93-   ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach
 
 E-mail contacts:
-    glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk     (bug reports mailing list)
-    glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk            (users' mailing list)
+    glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org       (bug reports mailing list)
+    glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org      (users' mailing list)
 
-Send mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk with 'help' in the body of the
+Send mail to majordomo@haskell.org with 'help' in the body of the
 message for information on joining/leaving either of these mailing
 lists.
 
-Anonymous FTP site: ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow.
+Anonymous FTP site: ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow.
 Mostly mirrored by ftp.cs.chalmers.se and haskell.org (same
 directory).  Also: sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk, in
 computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/.