X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=2b0eb7db4b0fd6853af783c3bdde0c808fcdba39;hb=cc5108731861285e732f22c15704e83bb7d0093f;hp=8dfc8904a637ba938369d8878672a0269707c03e;hpb=5eb1c77c795f92ed0f4c8023847e9d4be1a4fd0d;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index 8dfc890..2b0eb7d 100644 --- a/ghc/README +++ b/ghc/README @@ -1,32 +1,28 @@ -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 2.09 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation +system (GHC). GHC 2.09 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 @@ -37,12 +33,11 @@ Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): 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: @@ -52,22 +47,30 @@ 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