Glasgow Haskell Compiler

Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)

The Glasgow Haskell compiler(GHC) is an industrial strength Haskell compiler.

GHC provides an extensible I/O system, based on a "monad".
A number of significant language extensions are implemented.
A profiling system with which you can find out which bits of your program are eating both time and the space
Decent error messages. During type checking you get several (accurate) error reports rather than just one.
Performance: programs compiled with GHC "often" beat Chalmers-HBC-compiled ones. If you find programs where HBC wins, please report it to us, as a bug :-).

Development Team: Simon Peyton Jones (team leader), Jim Mattson, Will Partain, Andy Gill, Cordy Hall, Kevin Hammond, Simon Marlow, John Launchbury, Bryan O'Sullivan, Alastair Reid, Patrick Sansom, Andre Santos, Philip Wadler
Contact:
Simon Peyton Jones,
Department of Computing Science
Glasgow University
Glasgow
G12 8QQ

Email: simonpj@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Voice: (+44) 141-339-8855 x 4984
FAX: (+44) 141-330-4913
WWW: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~simonpj
Number of Users: Many
Number of Sites: Many
In use: 1992-Now
Language: Haskell 1.2
Compilers: Itself (GHC), HBC, NHC
Availability: FTP from ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow
Related Publications:

Simon L. Peyton Jones, "Implementing lazy functional languages on stock hardware", Journal of Functional Programming, Apr 1992