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nhc98-1.20
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http://haskell.org/nhc98/
We are pleased to announce that, contrary to popular belief, there is
indeed more than one Haskell compiler in the world. Whilst nhc98 might
not receive much love and attention these days, it does at least
continue to work. 1.20 is a refreshed release with many of the current
core library packages included, and a variety of small bugfixes since
the last release.
* It successfully compiles and runs more programs from the nobench
suite than jhc, hbc, Hugs, or yhc.
* It generates an interpreted bytecode that, on the whole runs faster
than that generated by Hugs or yhc, and in many cases is also faster
than ghci.
* Although nhc98 is written in Haskell, you don't need an existing
Haskell compiler on your platform to build nhc98 - a C compiler will
do. Hence, it is portable to almost any unix-like machine with a
32-bit compatibility mode.
* Many useful build tools come included:
hmake (the inspiration for ghc --make)
hi (interactive read-eval-print, like Hugs or ghci)
cpphs (Haskell-aware replacement for cpp)
hsc2hs (preprocessor for FFI code)
* Supplied with recent versions of these library packages:
base, Cabal, directory, filepath, fps, haskell-src, HaXml,
html, HUnit, old-locale, old-time, parsec, polyparse, pretty,
process, QuickCheck, random, xhtml
* Supports the Haskell'98 language standard, with the following
language extensions:
pattern guards (new)
existential types
named field puns
hierarchical module names
foreign function interface
no monomorphism restriction
empty data declarations
Regards,
Malcolm
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