you forget one other essential quality of hbc. As far as I know it is the only compiler that even has a chance of compiling Fudgets, and hence programs dependent on them such as the very cool (IMHO) Alfa proof editor (http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/Alfa/) and its assosiated improvments to Fudgets. If there is any effort to port these tools to a modern haskell system then I cheer you on. John On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:06:24AM +0200, Patrik Jansson wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Andre W B Furtado wrote: > > It is still possible to make hbc reach Haskell 98? > > In short: Hbc is not quite dead yet, and there is a H98 version. > > In detail: > > [Note: I'm no expert in compiler writing, nor do I support hbc. I just > happen to work at Chalmers in the office between Lennart Augustsson's > (main architect and implementor of hbc, now in industry) and Thomas > Hallgren's (still actively using and sometimes hacking hbc). > ] > > The latest unofficial release is a Haskell 98 version of hbc, from 1999. > Below are some links. > > There has been no official release for the last few years and the support > level is pretty low, but the compiler exists and can be used. > Unfortunately the web-pages and the documentation has not been updated the > last few years! > > One notable feature in hbc still missing in ghc is Unicode support (hbc > has supported Unicode from early on). I hope ghc will follow up the recent > change to Unicode-sized Chars with some library support soon. > > Many years ago a big benefit of hbc was its interactive variant hbi, only > very recently implemented by ghc, but hbi is even less supported than hbc > and I have only tried it once or twice. [I'd be very happy to hear someone > more involved in developing hbc and hbi come forward and disprove this > claim by providing a new release.] > > When it comes to speed I am pretty sure ghc produces faster code (it used > to be different, but that is a while ago) and I think hbc compiles faster > nowadays "only" because it does less work in producing good code. > > /Patrik Jansson > > Versions of hbc98: > > http://www.cs.chalmers.se/pub/users/hallgren/Alfa/Haskell/ > > Binary distributions of the latest unofficial release: 0.9999.5b > > >http://www.cs.chalmers.se/pub/users/hallgren/Alfa/Haskell/hbc-0.9999.5b.bin-i386-linux-libcv6.tar.gz > >http://www.cs.chalmers.se/pub/users/hallgren/Alfa/Haskell/hbc-0.9999.5b.bin-i386-linux-redhat-6.tar.gz > >http://www.cs.chalmers.se/pub/users/hallgren/Alfa/Haskell/hbc-0.9999.5b.bin-i386-netbsdELF.tar.gz > > Source snapshot: > > http://www.cs.chalmers.se/pub/users/hallgren/Alfa/Haskell/snapshot/1999-09-10/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell -- -------------------------------------------------------------- John Meacham http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~john/ California Institute of Technology, Alum. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
