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Announcing two new versions of Hugs 1.3, a functional programming system based
on Haskell 1.3.
*** NOTE: For most purposes, we recommend the use of Hugs 1.4, which
*** is the joint Nottingham and Yale release of Hugs, because
*** it offers more stability and closer compatability with Haskell,
*** including support for modules. We plan to incorporate the new
*** features mentioned here into the future releases of Hugs 1.4
*** at the earliest possible opportunity.
The two new versions of Hugs 1.3 are likely to be of most interest to the
following groups of people:
Hugs 1.3b - Anyone committed to using the old Hugs 1.3 system, perhaps
for compatability with lecture notes or a textbook, or
because they need to run it on older machines (unlike the
Hugs 1.4 system, Hugs 1.3 still supports 16 bit versions
of Windows).
Hugs 1.3b is a modest, bugfix update to the original release
of Hugs 1.3 in August 1996. Most (but not quite all) of the
bugfixes in this release are already included in Hugs 1.4.
Hugs 1.3c - Anyone curious to explore and experiment with the latest
developments in the Hugs type system. Based on a significant
overhaul of the type checker in previous releases, this
version of Hugs provides support for multiple parameter
type classes, polymorphic recursion, rank 2 polymorphism,
explicitly scoped type variables, existentials, extensible
records, etc. Please see the file WhatsNew for further
details.
Both versions are available on the World Wide Web from:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~mpj/hugs13/
or by anonymous ftp from:
ftp://ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk/haskell/hugs/hugs13
The distribution includes source code, demo programs, library files,
user documentation, and precompiled binaries for common platforms.
In particular, versions of Hugs for Windows and Hugs for Win 32 are
available.
Your feedback, comments, suggestions and bug reports are most welcome!
Please note however that *ALL* bug reports must be sent to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
otherwise I may not see them. Similarly, any other queries about Hugs
should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mark P. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/index.html
Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, England NG7 2RD
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