[Haskell-cafe] First steps in Haskell

[Tomasz Zielonka]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:14:07AM +0000, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> >If you want to know how to feed, for example, Hugs with your Haskell 
> >program, you might have to have a look at some Hugs documentation.  
> >Remember that different Haskell implementations like Hugs, GHCi etc. may 
> >have different ways of reading Haskell programs.
> 
> "remember"?  This is the first time I hear this, and I'm bewildered. I 
> expect two C compilers to be able to compile a correct C program. 
> Certainly a "hello world" program. How is it possible that two Haskell 
> implementations disagree on how to read a Haskell program? (unless it's 
> an advanced program with very unique compiler features - which is bad).

I think what Wolfgang meant was that different Haskell implementations
may have:
- different executable names, so you have to invoke them differently
- different options
- different style of work
etc...

Of course, all of them should accept all Haskell 98 programs.

Best regards
Tomasz

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