X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=8dfc8904a637ba938369d8878672a0269707c03e;hp=ea726dfa14a52af59b9b7848a62bf709f3047171;hb=5eb1c77c795f92ed0f4c8023847e9d4be1a4fd0d;hpb=f7ecf7234c224489be8a5e63fced903b655d92ee

diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README
index ea726df..8dfc890 100644
--- a/ghc/README
+++ b/ghc/README
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 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.
@@ -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.
 
-Current AQUA team (all @dcs.glasgow.ac.uk):
+Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):
 
     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]
-    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]
+    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:
-    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]
-    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:
+
     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
 
-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:
-    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/.