[project @ 1996-07-25 20:43:49 by partain]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / README

diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README
index ea726df..8dfc890 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/README
+++ b/ghc/README
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 This is version 2.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
 This is version 2.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation

-system (GHC).  This is a major public release.  The top-level file
-"ANNOUNCE-0.28" says more.
+system (GHC).  GHC 2.01 is a compiler for Haskell 1.3.

 
 

-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.
+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.

 
 

-Documentation of interest:
+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
+
+GHC documentation of interest:

 
 * docs/install_guide/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure,
   build, and install the system.
 
 * docs/install_guide/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure,
   build, and install the system.

@@ -29,50 +33,54 @@ 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 (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):
+Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):

 
     Sigbjorn Finne     (sof)       [PhD student]
 
     Sigbjorn Finne     (sof)       [PhD student]

-    Andy Gill          (andy)      [PhD student]
-    Kevin Hammond      (kh)        [GRASP; now a research fellow]
+    Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl)   [PhD student]

     Simon Marlow       (simonm)    [PhD student]
     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]
     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]
+    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:
 
 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]
+
+    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]

     Bryan O'Sullivan   (bos)       [visiting slave, summer '94; at Sun]
     Bryan O'Sullivan   (bos)       [visiting slave, summer '94; at Sun]

-    Alastair Reid      (areid)     [GHCI god, now working at Yale]
-    Phil Wadler                (wadler)    [GRASP]
+    Alastair Reid      (areid)     [GHCI god, at Yale]
+    Andr\'e Santos     (andre)     [PhD student; back in Brazil]
+    Phil Wadler                (wadler)    [GRASP; at Lucent soon]

 
 Cool people who've let us use their machines:
 
 Cool people who've let us use their machines:

+

     hppa1.1-hp-hpux    Sam Nelson, Stirling University
     hppa1.1-hp-hpux    Sam Nelson, Stirling University

-    mips-sgi-irix5     Tim Niblett, Turing Institute, Glasgow
-    sparc-sun-solaris2 Durham University
+    powerpc-ibm-aix    Walter Robinson, Mechanical Eng'g, Glasgow U.

 
 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
 
 
 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
+Dated: 96/07

 
 

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

 
 E-mail contacts:
 
 E-mail contacts:

-    glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk   (general queries)
+    glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.gla.ac.uk   (admin & 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@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*
+    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
+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
 computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/.
 directory).  Also: src.doc.ic.ac.uk, in
 computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/.