Jan de Wit wrote:

> I'm under the impression that Hugs has the most features (probably because
> it's relatively easy to hack on, being an interpreter in C), GHC comes next
> after that and tends to adopt features introduced in Hugs, and NHC and HBC
> lag far behind that (no compiler wars please - each tool has its strength
> and weaknesses and its niche).

I must jump to the defense of HBC here.  It had existential quantification years
before the others, and universal around the same time as GHC.  It's just that
GHC/Hugs happened to pick a different syntax.
It also depends on which features you want.  If you, e.g., want views than only
HBC has it.

       -- Lennart


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