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diff --git a/lang/hugs/DESCR b/lang/hugs/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..65e76ebf67f --- /dev/null +++ b/lang/hugs/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +The Nottingham and Yale Haskell interpreter and programming environment. + + 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. |