ANNOUNCEMENT: nhc98 version 1.00
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We are pleased to announce the first full release of 'nhc98', the
only Haskell'98 compiler written in Haskell'98 (although you do not
need a Haskell compiler to build nhc98).
Why might you want to use nhc98?
* It is easy to configure and install, on almost any 32-bit
machine or operating system.
* It is relatively small, space-efficient, and has excellent
heap-profiling tools.
* It comes complete with latest versions of 'hmake', 'hi',
'greencard', 'hp2graph', etc.
* It has *two* tracing and debugging tools:
o Andy Gill's HOOD library and browser;
o York's Hat (haskell tracer) system, which has
been substantially improved recently, and now
covers more of Haskell'98.
* Languages extensions include:
o The new common primitive FFI;
o Local forall quantification on datatypes.
This Haskell compiler is freely available as source for any 32-bit
system. If do not need to have a Haskell compiler in order to build
nhc98 - it can be bootstrapped via a C compiler. However, if you
do already have a Haskell compiler, the configuration process will
detect it and use it.
http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/nhc98/
Binary distributions packages will appear on the same website in due
course.
Regards,
Malcolm Wallace
Colin Runciman
Olaf Chitil
P.S. We are all away at ICFP'2000 for a week from the release date,
so bug reports will not be dealt with until our return.
