[Haskell-beginners] Re: Advantage to installing Hugs with GHC?

Mon Oct 5 05:40:13 EDT 2009

Brent Yorgey wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 02:53:44PM -0700, John Velman wrote:
>> My machine is an iMac running Leopard, 10.5.8.  I've installed GHC from
>> the haskell-platform-..(Leopard/x86) disk image.  Ghci works fine as far as
>> I can tell.  
>>
>> Is there any particular advantage to also installing Hugs?
> 
> Not really, unless (say) you are following some tutorial that specifically uses it.

Well, Hugs does start much faster than ghci on my machine, but that's
about the only advantage. :)

Regards,
apfelmus

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