This is version 2.06 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
system (GHC).  GHC 2.06 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4.

2.06 is an interim source-only release, which fixes most of the bugs
reported since 2.05.  We've done rudimentary testing on a few
platforms, but there might be a few bugs lurking.

Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language.
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/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.

* 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.

* ghc/docs/users_guide/release.{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this
  release (and earlier releases).

* 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
User's Guide (docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}) says what we
would like to know when you report a problem.

Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):

    Sigbjorn Finne	(sof)	    [PhD student]
    Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl)   [PhD student]
    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]

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]
    David N Turner	(dnt)	    [Linear Types; at An-Teallach]
    Phil Wadler		(wadler)    [GRASP; at Lucent]

Cool people who've let us use their machines:

    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: 97/03

GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html

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