Niklas has not disappeared at all. He can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED], but he's not maintaining nhc.
-- Lennart On Nov 24, 2007 5:48 PM, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 10:44:45AM +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > Hi > > > > > > can anyone provide a concise list of the major differences between > > > > nhc98 and ghc? for example, can i build a cabal package with nhc98? > i > > > > get that ghc and nhc98 are not interchangeable, otherwise i am not > > > > sure > > > > The other major differences: > > > > * nhc is unavailable on Windows > > * nhc programs run much slower > > * nhc has fewer users and fewer developers, meaning more bugs > > There are also a few advantages: > > * It was written on an Acorn A4000, an 80s-era PC with a whopping 3MB of > memory; as such it is much more memory-friendly than GHC, which at the > time wanted 16MB for normal use. > > * It's unrelated to GHC, which means that the set of bugs are > uncorrelated. If you think GHC is doing something wrong, ask NHC for > a second opinion. > > * It's much easier to port than GHC. > > (And an important disadvantage - The original author of NHC, Niklaus > Röjemo, has disappeared off the face of the Internet, and the acting > maintainer doesn't actually grok most of the code.) > > Stefan > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFHSGQJFBz7OZ2P+dIRAktsAJ4sqzHDuIEXS3tinXKVaOmLxcM4+wCfSfts > iHmRIaQ1SQ119S4S+Qg5Zj0= > =OhOW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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