[Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

[Jeremy Shaw]

Have you considered installing on older version of GHC? Such as GHC
6.10.4 or GHC 6.8.3?

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_4
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_683

They won't have all the latest extensions.. but they still have more
features than any other alternative.

Also, once you have a version installed, you can, with enough
patience, upgrade to the latest version if you really need some
feature.

- jeremy

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Christopher Howard
<christopher.howard at frigidcode.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've got this work situation where I've got to do all my work on
> /ancient/ RHEL5 systems, with funky software configurations, and no root
> privileges. I wanted to install GHC in my local account, but the gnu
> libc version is so old (2.5!) that I can't even get the binary packages
> to install.
>
> I've had success installing some other simple functional languages (like
> CLISP) on these same systems, so I was wondering if there was perhaps
> another language very similar to Haskell (but presumably simpler) with a
> super portable compiler easily built from source, which I could try.
>
> I'll admit -- I haven't tried the HUGS compiler for Haskell. The quick
> description didn't make it sound much more portable than GHC, but I
> guess I could try it if I heard some good reasons to think it would be
> more portable.
>
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