We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
Compiler (GHC), version 2.04. Source distribution is freely available
We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
Compiler (GHC), version 2.04. Source distribution is freely available
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
- * Data constructors can now have polymophic fields, and ordinary
- functions can have polymoprhic arguments. Details on
+ * Data constructors can now have polymorphic fields, and ordinary
+ functions can have polymorphic arguments. Details on
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/guards.html
* Compiler can now compile itself (i.e., no real dependence on
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/guards.html
* Compiler can now compile itself (i.e., no real dependence on
- Compilation speeds has improved since 2.02, although it still slower
- than GHC-0.29, the Good Old Compiler. (the gap is narrowing, though!)
+ Compilation speeds has improved since 2.02, although it is still slower
+ than the Good Old Compiler, GHC-0.29. (the gap is narrowing, though!)
* Code quality is better, the simplifier and inlining machinery has been
refurbished. Not sure how much better.
* Code quality is better, the simplifier and inlining machinery has been
refurbished. Not sure how much better.
Heroic Efforts of Andr\'e Santos <alms@di.ufpe.br>.
* It has been tested against a large suite of (mostly) Haskell 1.2
Heroic Efforts of Andr\'e Santos <alms@di.ufpe.br>.
* It has been tested against a large suite of (mostly) Haskell 1.2
* A couple of Haskell 1.4 features are still incompletely supported,
notably polymorphic strictness annotations, and Unicode.
* A couple of Haskell 1.4 features are still incompletely supported,
notably polymorphic strictness annotations, and Unicode.
* sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
* mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
* i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
* sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
* mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
* i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.