Hi Ant, I don't believe anyone still maintains or uses Hugs - you'd be better off looking at GHC.
Thanks, Neil On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 12:37 AM Anthony Clayden <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is anybody still listening here? > > I see the Hugs source distro is still around - vintage 2006, and there's > somebody curated it on github. > > I'm particularly looking for a version with TRex, but the github-curated > version doesn't seem to include that(?) > > Can anybody comment on how easy it is to compile Hugs (on Windows), compared > to compiling GHC? The instructions for Hugs make out it's reasonably easy, > whereas the instructions for GHC seem to be fraught with gotchas. But perhaps > Hugs has as many gotchas, just not documented(?) > > My impression from discussion forums when Hugs was still active, is that Hugs > source was easier to hack if you wanted to experiment with changes to the > language(?) > > What seems sad these days is that GHC is so monstrous and formidable, hardly > anybody builds experimental extensions to Haskell. > > Thank you > AntC > > _______________________________________________ > Hugs-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users _______________________________________________ Hugs-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hugs-users
