This is version 2.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation
system (GHC).  GHC 2.01 is a compiler for Haskell 1.3.

2.01 is a full GHC release; however, as the first release of the 1.3
compiler, it is "test" quality; it very well may have serious bugs.
The top-level file "ANNOUNCE-2.01" says more.

Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language.
Haskell 1.3 is the current version of the language, released in
May. 1996.  The language definition is on the Web at
http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/haskell-report/haskell-report.html

GHC documentation of interest:

* docs/install_guide/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure,
  build, and install the system.

  The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format
  (.dvi suffix), or GNU Info format (.info); the latter is close to
  plain ASCII, if that's what you want.

* docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what
  options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use
  the profiling facilities, etc.

* docs/release_notes/release{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this
  release (and all previous releases).

* docs/README: About the other documentation in this release.

We welcome your comments and suggestions about this software!  Please
do not suffer or grumble in silence.  The "bug reports" section of the
User's Guide (docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}) says what we
would like to know when you report a problem.

Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk):

    Sigbjorn Finne	(sof)	    [PhD student]
    Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl)   [PhD student]
    Simon Marlow	(simonm)    [PhD student]
    Will Partain	(partain)   [hired hand, GRASP/AQUA]
    Simon Peyton Jones	(simonpj)   [our Fearless Leader]
    Patrick Sansom	(sansom)    [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses]
    Phil Trinder	(trinder)   [hired hand, Parade]
    David N Turner	(dnt)	    [hired hand, Linear Types]

Past contributors and/or continuing advisors:

    Andy Gill		(andy)	    [PhD student; at HP]
    Cordy Hall		(cvh) 	    [GRASP]
    Kevin Hammond	(kh)	    [GRASP; at St. Andrews]
    John Launchbury	(jl)	    [AQUA; at OGI]
    Jim Mattson		(mattson)   [hired hand, AQUA; HP]
    Darren Moffat	(moffatd)   [slave, summer '95; at MoD]
    Bryan O'Sullivan	(bos)	    [visiting slave, summer '94; at Sun]
    Alastair Reid	(areid)	    [GHCI god, at Yale]
    Andr\'e Santos	(andre)	    [PhD student; back in Brazil]
    Phil Wadler		(wadler)    [GRASP; at Lucent soon]

Cool people who've let us use their machines:

    hppa1.1-hp-hpux	Sam Nelson, Stirling University
    powerpc-ibm-aix	Walter Robinson, Mechanical Eng'g, Glasgow U.

Simon's projects' acronyms:
    GRIP  ('87-'90): Graph reduction in parallel
    GRASP ('90-'92): Graph reduction applications support project
    AQUA  ('93-   ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach

Dated: 96/07

GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html

E-mail contacts:
    glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.gla.ac.uk   (admin & general queries)

    glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk	    (bug reports mailing list)
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directory).  Also: src.doc.ic.ac.uk, in
computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/.