X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=bab25f92ffb732b954cb798e38833abefbf83c45;hb=0268d6925e117661769fbe1ed823cbef7e4da8e3;hp=8dfc8904a637ba938369d8878672a0269707c03e;hpb=5eb1c77c795f92ed0f4c8023847e9d4be1a4fd0d;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index 8dfc890..bab25f9 100644 --- a/ghc/README +++ b/ghc/README @@ -1,86 +1,94 @@ -This is version 2.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation -system (GHC). GHC 2.01 is a compiler for Haskell 1.3. +The Glasgow Haskell Compiler +============================ -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 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 1.3 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 +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/ GHC documentation of interest: -* docs/install_guide/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure, - build, and install the system. +* docs/installing.{dvi,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. + (.dvi suffix), or HTML. -* docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what +* 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. -* docs/release_notes/release{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this - release (and all previous releases). - -* docs/README: About the other documentation in this release. +* ghc/docs/libraries/libs.{dvi,html}: Several libraries that are + provided by both GHC and Hugs. 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. +User's Guide says what we would like to know when you report a +problem. -Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): +Current GHC team: - Sigbjorn Finne (sof) [PhD student] + 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): + + Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero] Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student] - Simon Marlow (simonm) [PhD student] - Will Partain (partain) [hired hand, GRASP/AQUA] - 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: - 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, 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] + +And many others who've contributed bits of code / bug reports in the past. 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 - -GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html - E-mail contacts: - glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.gla.ac.uk (admin & general queries) - 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* +Send mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk with 'help' in the body of the +message for information on joining/leaving either of these mailing +lists. -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 +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/.