-This is version 2.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
-system (GHC). This is a major public release. The top-level file
-"ANNOUNCE-0.28" says more.
+This is version 2.02 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
+system (GHC). GHC 2.02 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4.
-Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language [see
-SIGPLAN Notices, May 1992]. Some general merits of GHC are given at
-the end of this file.
+2.02 is a full GHC release; however, as the first release of the 1.4
+compiler, it is "beta" quality; it is reliable, but it may very well
+have some bugs. The top-level file "ANNOUNCE-2.02" says more.
-Documentation of interest:
+Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language.
+Haskell 1.4 is the current version of the language, released in
+May. 1996. The language definition is on the Web at
+http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/haskell-report/haskell-report.html
-* docs/install_guide/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure,
- build, and install the system.
+GHC documentation of interest:
+
+* docs/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure, build, and
+ install the system.
The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format
(.dvi suffix), or GNU Info format (.info); the latter is close to
plain ASCII, if that's what you want.
-* docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what
+* ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what
options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use
the profiling facilities, etc.
-* docs/release_notes/release{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this
- release (and all previous releases).
+* ghc/docs/users_guide/release.{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this
+ release (and earlier releases).
-* docs/README: About the other documentation in this release.
+* ghc/docs/README: About the other documentation in this release.
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 (docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}) says what we
would like to know when you report a problem.
-Current AQUA team (all @dcs.glasgow.ac.uk):
+Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):
Sigbjorn Finne (sof) [PhD student]
- Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student]
- Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; now a research fellow]
- Simon Marlow (simonm) [PhD student]
- Darren Moffat (moffatd) [slave, summer '95]
- Will Partain (partain) [hired hand, GRASP/AQUA]
+ Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student]
+ Simon Marlow (simonm) [hired hand]
+ Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero]
Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj) [our Fearless Leader]
- Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, "Bidirectional Analyses"]
- Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student]
+ Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses]
+ Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade]
Past contributors and/or continuing advisors:
- Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP; now at Open University]
- John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; now at OGI]
- Jim Mattson (mattson) [hired hand, AQUA; just moved to HP]
+
+ Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student; at HP]
+ Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP]
+ Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; at St. Andrews]
+ John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; at OGI]
+ Jim Mattson (mattson) [hired hand, AQUA; HP]
+ 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, now working at Yale]
- Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP]
+ Alastair Reid (areid) [GHCI god, at Yale]
+ Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student; back in Brazil]
+ David N Turner (dnt) [Linear Types; at An-Teallach]
+ Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP; at Lucent]
Cool people who've let us use their machines:
- hppa1.1-hp-hpux Sam Nelson, Stirling University
- mips-sgi-irix5 Tim Niblett, Turing Institute, Glasgow
- sparc-sun-solaris2 Durham University
+
+ sparc-sun-sunos{4,5} PacSoft, Oregon Graduate Institute
+ hppa1.1-hp-hpux,
+ i386-unknown-linux Charles Krasic, Oregon Graduate Institute
+ alpha-dec-osf,
+ i386-*-solaris2 Mark Fanty, CSLU, Oregon Graduate Institute
+
+Also thanks to Conal Elliott, Microsoft Research for facilitating the work
+on the Win32 port of GHC.
Simon's projects' acronyms:
GRIP ('87-'90): Graph reduction in parallel
GRASP ('90-'92): Graph reduction applications support project
AQUA ('93- ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach
-Dated: 95/07/24
+Dated: 97/03
-GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html
+GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html
E-mail contacts:
- glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (general queries)
+ glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.gla.ac.uk (admin & general queries)
- glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list)
- glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (users' mailing list)
+ glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list)
+ glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk (users' mailing list)
- glasgow-haskell-bugs-request@... to join, send mail *here*
- glasgow-haskell-users-request@... to join, send mail *here*
+ glasgow-haskell-bugs-request@... to join, send mail *here*
+ glasgow-haskell-users-request@... to join, send mail *here*
-Anonymous FTP site: ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow. Mostly
-mirrored by ftp.cs.chalmers.se and nebula.cs.yale.edu (same
+Anonymous FTP site: ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow. Mostly
+mirrored by ftp.cs.chalmers.se and haskell.cs.yale.edu (same
directory). Also: src.doc.ic.ac.uk, in
computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/.
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