[Haskell-cafe] Hugs

[Andrew Coppin]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
>
>> > I don't know about Linux, but Hugs is currently hopelessly unstable on
>> > Windoze.
>>
>> Have you filed bugs in the hugs bug tracker?
>
> No bugs have been filed from this. In general Windows and Hugs is rock
> solid, I use it every single day without issue - including to develop
> Yhc (an compiler). If Andrew is having any problems, please share them
> (hugs-bugs -at- haskell.org).

IIRC, I did have a look at the bugtracker once, and several people 
seemed to have reported bugs similar to the ones I'm seeing.

It's a shame really; the 2003 release of Hugs worked flawlessly. The new 
2006 release has a much nicer UI, but... it behaves unpredictably. In 
particular, it has a habit of printing garbage instead of computation 
results. (Sometimes the correct result is truncated, sometimes parts of 
previous outputs - or the welcome banner - is reprinted instead of the 
output. Sometimes the output it printed multiple times. Sometimes valid 
Haskell generates spurious parse or type errors, but if you restart Hugs 
it works fine, etc.) Also, more than once I've been visited by Dr 
Watson. I don't care *what* you do to a program, it should _never_ crash 
that badly...

There is also the minor detail that the uninstaller doesn't actually 
work. ("The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction...") So I 
can't even remove the program from my computer now. :-(