______________________________________________________________________________ Announcing two new versions of Hugs 1.3, a functional programming system based on Haskell 1.3. *** NOTE: For most purposes, we recommend the use of Hugs 1.4, which *** is the joint Nottingham and Yale release of Hugs, because *** it offers more stability and closer compatability with Haskell, *** including support for modules. We plan to incorporate the new *** features mentioned here into the future releases of Hugs 1.4 *** at the earliest possible opportunity. The two new versions of Hugs 1.3 are likely to be of most interest to the following groups of people: Hugs 1.3b - Anyone committed to using the old Hugs 1.3 system, perhaps for compatability with lecture notes or a textbook, or because they need to run it on older machines (unlike the Hugs 1.4 system, Hugs 1.3 still supports 16 bit versions of Windows). Hugs 1.3b is a modest, bugfix update to the original release of Hugs 1.3 in August 1996. Most (but not quite all) of the bugfixes in this release are already included in Hugs 1.4. Hugs 1.3c - Anyone curious to explore and experiment with the latest developments in the Hugs type system. Based on a significant overhaul of the type checker in previous releases, this version of Hugs provides support for multiple parameter type classes, polymorphic recursion, rank 2 polymorphism, explicitly scoped type variables, existentials, extensible records, etc. Please see the file WhatsNew for further details. Both versions are available on the World Wide Web from: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~mpj/hugs13/ or by anonymous ftp from: ftp://ftp.cs.nott.ac.uk/haskell/hugs/hugs13 The distribution includes source code, demo programs, library files, user documentation, and precompiled binaries for common platforms. In particular, versions of Hugs for Windows and Hugs for Win 32 are available. Your feedback, comments, suggestions and bug reports are most welcome! Please note however that *ALL* bug reports must be sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], otherwise I may not see them. Similarly, any other queries about Hugs should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________________ Mark P. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/index.html Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, England NG7 2RD ______________________________________________________________________________