ANNOUNCEMENT: nhc98 version 1.00 -------------------------------- 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.