-This is version 2.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
-system (GHC). GHC 2.01 is a compiler for Haskell 1.3.
-
-2.01 is a full GHC release; however, as the first release of the 1.3
-compiler, it is "test" quality; it very well may have serious bugs.
-The top-level file "ANNOUNCE-2.01" says more.
+This is version 3.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
+system (GHC). GHC 3.01 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4.
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language.
-Haskell 1.3 is the current version of the language, released in
+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
GHC documentation of interest:
-* docs/install_guide/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure,
- build, and install the system.
+* 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
Sigbjorn Finne (sof) [PhD student]
Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student]
- Simon Marlow (simonm) [PhD student]
- Will Partain (partain) [hired hand, GRASP/AQUA]
+ 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]
Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade]
- David N Turner (dnt) [hired hand, Linear Types]
Past contributors and/or continuing advisors:
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, at Yale]
Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student; back in Brazil]
- Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP; at Lucent soon]
+ 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
- powerpc-ibm-aix Walter Robinson, Mechanical Eng'g, Glasgow U.
+ 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: 96/07
+Dated: 97/03
-GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html
+GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
E-mail contacts:
glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.gla.ac.uk (admin & general queries)