News/1991

1991

1991-12

• HBC and LML 0.997.1. Lennart Augustsson announced a new version of hbc/lml.The Haskell B. compiler (hbc) has been upgraded to Haskell 1.1.

• Haskell libraries. Simon Peyton Jones announced an open public repository of Haskell libraries

1991-11

• Gofer version 2.21. Mark Jones announced Gofer version 2.21. Including experimental support for c*p and p+k patterns.

• Journal of Functional Programming. Paul Hudak announced the JFP was in to its second year.

1991-10

• Functional programming tool by UK NIFTP. Will Partain announced a list of the functional programming tools avail by UK NIFTP, including:

  • Gofer 2.20
  • GHC 0.41
  • LML/HBC 0.99.3

• Yale Haskell Y1.2. John Peterson announced the release of Yale Haskell Y1.2. More information

1991-08

• The Haskell Report Version 1.1. John Peterson announced that the Haskell Report Version 1.1, is released. And here

• Gofer 2.20. Mark Jones announced the first release of Gofer, an interpreter supporting a language based on the draft report for Haskell version 1.1. More information

1991-05

• Yale Haskell 1.1. John Peterson announced Yale Haskell 1.1

• Mkhprog - a Haskell command line parser generator. Nick North announced Mkhprog - a Haskell command line parser generator

1991-04

• Haskell Status. Philip Wadler announced a short report on the status of Glasgow Haskell. A prototype GHC is available to "brave bug-resistant souls who are desperate to run Haskell".

1991-03

• Remaining issues for the Haskell report. Simon Peyton Jones announced a summary of remaining points for the revised Haskell report

• Beta Release of Yale Haskell. The Yale Haskell Group announced the beta release of Yale Haskell, an optimizing compiler for Haskell that is (mostly) compliant with Haskell 1.0

• Prototype GHC runs nfib. Kevin Hammond announced that the prototype GHC can compile nfib, and computes 29229 nfib/s.

• A revised report. Simon Peyton Jones announced a revision of the Haskell report is underway

1991-01

• Sets and maps in Haskell available. Nick North announced that a library for finite maps and sets in Haskell is available

• NHC starts working (Rojemo)