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

[John Velman]

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:40:13AM +0200, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks -- I can't notice any delay when starting ghci (I didn't always have
a fast machine!). 

Also, I guess if something in a tutorial really depends on Hugs, it would
be something that I really don't need to know (unless I plan on using
Hugs,that is).

I'll skip installing Hugs.

Thanks to both.

John Velman


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