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-The Nottingham and Yale Haskell interpreter and programming environment.
+Hugs 98 is a functional programming system based on Haskell 98, the de
+facto standard for non-strict functional programming languages.  Hugs 98
+provides an almost complete implementation of Haskell 98, including:
 
-   Nottingham and Yale are pleased to announce a new release of Hugs,
-   a Haskell interpreter and programming environment for developing
-   cool Haskell programs.  Sources and binaries are freely available
-   by anonymous FTP and on the World-Wide Web.
-
-   This release is largely conformant with Haskell 1.4, including
-   monad and record syntax, newtypes, strictness annotations, and
-   modules.  In addition, it comes packaged with the libraries defined
-   in the most recent version of the Haskell Library Report and with
-   extension libraries which are compatible with GHC 3.0.
-
-   Hugs is best used as a Haskell program development system: it boasts
-   extremely fast compilation, supports incremental compilation, and
-   has the convenience of an interactive interpreter (within which one
-   can move from module to module to test different portions of a
-   program).  However, being an interpreter, it does not nearly match
-   the run-time performance of, for example, GHC or HBC.
+* Lazy evaluation, higher order functions, and pattern matching.
+* A wide range of built-in types, from characters to bignums, and lists
+  to functions, with comprehensive facilities for defining new datatypes
+  and type synonyms.
+* An advanced polymorphic type system with type and constructor class
+  overloading.
+* All of the features of the Haskell 98 expression and pattern syntax
+  including lambda, case, conditional and let expressions, list
+  comprehensions, do-notation, operator sections, and wildcard,
+  irrefutable and `as' patterns.
+* An implementation of the Haskell 98 primitives for monadic I/O, with
+  support for simple interactive programs, access to text files,
+  handle-based I/O, and exception handling.
+* An almost complete implementation of the Haskell module system.
+  Hugs 98 also supports a number of advanced and experimental extensions
+  including multi-parameter classes, extensible records, rank-2
+  polymorphism, existentials, scoped type variables, and restricted
+  type synonyms.