X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=bab25f92ffb732b954cb798e38833abefbf83c45;hb=0268d6925e117661769fbe1ed823cbef7e4da8e3;hp=566b28084aaec6fcb76dd49406757ffa4e942f9e;hpb=438596897ebbe25a07e1c82085cfbc5bdb00f09e;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index 566b280..bab25f9 100644 --- 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: @@ -35,6 +41,7 @@ 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] Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):