tool: Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)

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Language:	Haskell
Version:	4.06
Parts:	translator (C, SPARC), profiler
Author:	Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com>
Location:	http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ uk: ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/ sweden: ftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/haskell/glasgow/
Description:	The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising compiler for Haskell 98. GHC compiles Haskell to either native code or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to Haskell 98; for example: concurrency, a foreign language interface, multi-parameter type classes, scoped type variables, existential and universal quantification, unboxed types, exceptions, weak pointers, and so on. GHC comes with a generational garbage collector, and a space and time profiler. Haskell 98 is a superset of Haskell 1.4
Conformance:
Reference:	Papers at ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (only) in pub/glasgow-fp, "Imperative functional programming", Peyton Jones & Wadler, POPL '93 "Unboxed data types as first-class citizens", Peyton Jones & Launchbury, FPCA '91 "Profiling lazy functional languages", Sansom & Peyton Jones, Glasgow workshop '92 "Implementing lazy functional languages on stock hardware", Peyton Jones, Journal of Functional Programming, Apr 1992
Features:	An extensible I/O system is provided, based on a "monad" Extensive Optimisation Built-in Profiling In-line C code Fully fledged unboxed data types Incrementally-updatable arrays Mutable reference types Concurrent Haskell Generational garbage collector
Bugs:	<glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Requires:	GNU C 2.1+, perl
Ports:	solid: Sun4, Solaris2, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows 9X/NT, HP-UX 9 & 10
Portability:	should be high
Contact:	<glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Updated:	2000/01/28

language: Haskell

category: functional languages summary, or expanded.