-This is version 2.10 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
-system (GHC). GHC 2.10 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4.
+The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
+============================
+
+(this file is fptools/ghc/README in a source distribution, and
+fptools/README in a binary distribution).
+
+GHC is a batch compiler for Haskell 98. See the file ANNOUNCE for
+information on the current version.
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
+Haskell 98 is the current version of the language, released in
+December 1998. The language definition is on the Web at
+http://www.haskell.org/definition/.
-GHC documentation of interest:
+More information on GHC can be found on its web page
-* docs/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure, build, and
- install the system.
+ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
- 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.
+Documentation
+=============
-* 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.
+In a binary distribution, pre-formatted documentation can be found in
+the html and ps directories. Pre-formatted HTML documentation is also
+available on the GHC web page.
-* ghc/docs/users_guide/release.{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this
- release (and earlier releases).
+In a source distribution, the unformatted (DocBook XML) documentation
+is in the following places:
-* ghc/docs/README: About the other documentation in this release.
+ * fptools/ghc/docs/users_guide Users' Guide.
+ * fptools/hslibs/doc/hslibs Library documentation.
+ * fptools/docs Build System Guide.
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/
-
-E-mail contacts:
- glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.gla.ac.uk (admin & general queries)
-
- 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*
-
-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/.
+User's Guide says what we would like to know when you report a
+problem.
+
+Mailing Lists
+=============
+
+ glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org (bug reports mailing list)
+ glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org (users' mailing list)
+ cvs-ghc@haskell.org (developers & bleeding-edge users list)
+
+ subscribe at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
+
+Contributors
+=============
+
+Please see
+
+ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/contributors.html
+
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