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9 <h1>The GHC Commentary - The Glorious Driver</h1>
11 The Glorious Driver (GD) is the part of GHC that orchestrates the
12 interaction of all the other pieces that make up GHC. It supersedes the
13 <em>Evil Driver (ED),</em> which was a Perl script that served the same
14 purpose and was in use until version 4.08.1 of GHC. Simon Marlow
15 eventually slayed the ED and instated the GD.
17 The GD has been substantially extended for GHCi, i.e., the interactive
18 variant of GHC that integrates the compiler with a (meta-circular)
19 interpreter since version 5.00.
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