noeyfan / hugs98-plus-sep2006

Revive Hugs98 from its last official self-contained distribution.

Hugs, a Haskell98 implementation

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||   || ||  || ||  || ||__      Hugs 98: Based on the Haskell 98 standard
||___|| ||__|| ||__||  __||     Copyright (c) 1994-2006
||---||         ___||           World Wide Web: http://haskell.org/hugs
||   ||                         Report bugs to: [email protected]
||   || Version:    May 2006    _________________________________________

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Hugs was a popular implementation of the Haskell programming language in the 1990s. Maintenance of it stopped in 2009, three years after the final release in 2006.

I have updated the source code of the original 2006 distribution to make it build again today, on Mac OS X in particular.

I am maintaining this repo of Hugs for historical purposes.

I have not tested other platforms but would welcome verification or additional portability fixes). I did not start with the development version as of 2009 because of uncertainty about any changes introduced since 2006.

I have provided a Homebrew formula so that if you are on Mac OS X, you can install Hugs as follows:

$ brew install FranklinChen/tap/hugs --HEAD

(If you are curious, you can look at my Homebrew tap repo here.)

Included packages

The 2006 source distribution of Hugs included a variety of packages, and I have attempted to make most of them build. Not everything has successfully built. X11, GLUT, OpenAL, ALUT did not build successfully.

For real life work in Haskell

For real life work in Haskell, please use GHC, which comes with

• a Hugs-inspired interpreter ghci that works just like Hugs, except better.
• an industrial-strength optimizing native compiler ghc, which generates code running hundreds of times faster than interpreted ghci and comparable to C speed.
• access to a huge ecosystem of libraries called Hackage.

I use GHC every day. On Mac OS X, it's very easy to get going with using GHC. I recommend using Homebrew to install everything you need to get started, including GHC, Cabal, and the great Stack tool.

Installation of GHC

$ brew install ghc cabal-install haskell-stack