This is version 0.26 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
system (GHC).  This is a major public release.  The top-level file
"ANNOUNCE-0.26" says more.

Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language [see
SIGPLAN Notices, May 1992]. Some general merits of GHC are given at
the end of this file.

Documentation of interest:

* docs/install_guide/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.

* 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.

* 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.

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.glasgow.ac.uk):

    Sigbjorn Finne	(sof)	    [PhD student]
    Andy Gill		(andy)	    [PhD student]
    Kevin Hammond	(kh)	    [GRASP; now a research fellow]
    Simon Marlow	(simonm)    [PhD student]
    Darren Moffat	(moffatd)   [slave, summer '95]
    Will Partain	(partain)   [hired hand, GRASP/AQUA]
    Simon Peyton Jones	(simonpj)   [our Fearless Leader]
    Patrick Sansom	(sansom)    [hired hand, "Bidirectional Analyses"]
    Andr\'e Santos	(andre)	    [PhD student]

Past contributors and/or continuing advisors:
    Cordy Hall		(cvh) 	    [GRASP; now at Open University]
    John Launchbury	(jl)	    [AQUA; now at OGI]
    Jim Mattson		(mattson)   [hired hand, AQUA; just moved to HP]
    Bryan O'Sullivan	(bos)	    [visiting slave, summer '94; at Sun]
    Alastair Reid	(areid)	    [GHCI god, now working at Yale]
    Phil Wadler		(wadler)    [GRASP]

Cool people who've let us use their machines:
    hppa1.1-hp-hpux	Sam Nelson, Stirling University
    mips-sgi-irix5	Tim Niblett, Turing Institute, Glasgow
    sparc-sun-solaris2	Durham University

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: 95/07/24

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

E-mail contacts:
    glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk   (general queries)

    glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk	(bug reports mailing list)
    glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk	(users' mailing list)

    glasgow-haskell-bugs-request@...		to join, send mail *here*
    glasgow-haskell-users-request@...		to join, send mail *here*

Anonymous FTP site: ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow.  Mostly
mirrored by ftp.cs.chalmers.se and nebula.cs.yale.edu (same
directory).  Also: src.doc.ic.ac.uk, in
computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/.