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diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index ea726dfa14..8dfc8904a6 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/. |