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+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/.