information on the current version.
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language.
-Haskell 98 is the current version of the language, released in
+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
+http://www.haskell.org/definition/.
More information on GHC can be found on its web page
- http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
+ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
-GHC documentation of interest:
+Documentation
+=============
-* docs/installing.{dvi,html}: How to configure, build, and
- install the system.
+In a binary distribution, pre-formatted documentation can be found in
+the html and ps directories. Pre-formatted HTML documentation is also
+available on the GHC web page.
- The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format
- (.dvi suffix), or HTML.
+In a source distribution, the unformatted (SGML) documentation is in
+the following places:
-* ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what
- options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use
- the profiling facilities, etc.
-
-* ghc/docs/libraries/libs.{dvi,html}: Several libraries that are
- provided by both GHC and Hugs.
+ * fptools/ghc/docs/users_guide Users' Guide.
+ * fptools/hslibs/doc/hslibs Library documentation.
+ * fptools/docs Build System Guide.
We welcome your comments and suggestions about this software! Please
do not suffer or grumble in silence. The "bug reports" section of the
User's Guide says what we would like to know when you report a
problem.
+Mailing Lists
+=============
+
+ glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org (bug reports mailing list)
+ glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org (users' mailing list)
+ cvs-ghc@haskell.org (developers & bleeding-edge users list)
+
+ subscribe by sending mail to majordomo@haskell.org
+
+
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]
- Julian Seward (v-julsew@microsoft.com) [hired hand]
+ Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> [our Fearless Leader]
+ Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com> [hired hand]
+ Julian Seward <v-julsew@microsoft.com> [hired hand]
+ Reuben Thomas <v-reubth@microsoft.com> [hired hand]
+
+Additional Contributors (in alphabetical order):
+
+ Manuel Chakravarty <chak@cse.unsw.edu.au>
+ Sigbjorn Finne <sof@microsoft.com>
+ Kevin Glynn <keving@cs.mu.oz.au>
+ Jeff Lewis <jlewis@cse.ogi.edu>
+ Marcin Kowalczyk <qrczak@knm.org.pl>
+ Hans Wolfgang Lloidl <hwloidl@cee.hw.ac.uk>
+ Sven Panne <Sven.Panne@informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
+ Keith Wansborough <Keith.Wansbrough@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+ Michael Weber <michael.weber@post.rwth-aachen.de>
Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):
+ Juan Quintela (quintela)
Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero]
- Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student]
Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses]
Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade]
- Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student; at HP]
+ Andy Gill (andy) [ex-PhD student; at OGI]
Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP]
Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; at St. Andrews]
John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; at OGI]
Darren Moffat (moffatd) [slave, summer '95; at MoD]
Will Partain (partain) [GRASP/AQUA; touring with Johnny Cash]
Bryan O'Sullivan (bos) [visiting slave, summer '94; at Sun]
- Alastair Reid (areid) [GHCI god, at Yale]
+ Alastair Reid (areid) [GHCI, STG/Hugs etc.]
Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student; back in Brazil]
David N Turner (dnt) [Linear Types; at An-Teallach]
Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP; at Lucent]
GRASP ('90-'92): Graph reduction applications support project
AQUA ('93- ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach
-E-mail contacts:
- glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org (bug reports mailing list)
- glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org (users' mailing list)
-
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-
-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/.
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