[Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

2009-02-11 Thread Simon Marlow
Conrad Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009 06:41:54 am Simon Marlow wrote: John Goerzen wrote: Just to close -- I will point out that ghci doesn't work on many platforms that Hugs does (though ghc does). Hugs is the only interpreter on some of these platforms. I didn't see anyone follow

[Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

2009-02-10 Thread Simon Marlow
John Goerzen wrote: Just to close -- I will point out that ghci doesn't work on many platforms that Hugs does (though ghc does). Hugs is the only interpreter on some of these platforms. I didn't see anyone follow up to this so I'll just mention that nowadays GHCi works wherever GHC works,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

2009-02-10 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 06:41:54 am Simon Marlow wrote: John Goerzen wrote: Just to close -- I will point out that ghci doesn't work on many platforms that Hugs does (though ghc does). Hugs is the only interpreter on some of these platforms. I didn't see anyone follow up to this so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-28 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi to mind), if Hugs is likely to continue to have compatibility problems with GHC, then is there any way an interface similar to that already available for WinHugs could be created for GHCi? If that gets underway, one additional improvement could be to improve the REPL at handling declared

[Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-27 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:41:49 -0600, John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:18:55PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: [...] But it takes a community to make support viable; if the common libraries that everyone uses don't work on Hugs, then people won't use it. [...]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-27 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Jan 28, at 0:15, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: Although a GUI interface makes little difference to most UNIX/Linux users, for some Haskell beginners in the Windows/OS X world, the availability of a GUI interface could make the experience more appealing, especially at first. Given that some