[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

[Jon Fairbairn]

atze at cs.uu.nl writes:

> 	    Utrecht Haskell Compiler -- first release, version 1.0.0
> 	    ========================================================
>
>
> The UHC team is happy to announce the first public release of the
> Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC). UHC supports almost all Haskell98
> features

Why? Is there something about Haskell 98 that's hard to
implement?

> plus many experimental extensions.

fair enough, but it always puzzles my why implementations of
compilers almost never start with a complete standard
language.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk
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