diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'lang/ghc88/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | lang/ghc88/DESCR | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lang/ghc88/DESCR b/lang/ghc88/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b7ca417f94b --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/ghc88/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +GHC: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler. + +The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising +compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98 +(http://www.haskell.org). GHC compiles Haskell to either native code +or C. It implements numerous experimental language extensions to +Haskell, including concurrency, a foreign language interface, several +type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a +generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a +comprehensive set of libraries. + +This package provides the 8.8.x release series. |