| Developer(s) | Mark P. Jones, others |
|---|---|
| Stable release | September 2006 / 2006-09-21 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Compiler |
| License | BSD |
| Website | Hugs 98 homepage |
Hugs (Haskell User's Gofer System), also Hugs 98, is a bytecode interpreter for the functional programming language Haskell. Hugs is the successor to Gofer, and was originally derived from Gofer version 2.30b.[1] Hugs and Gofer were originally developed by Mark P. Jones, now a professor at Portland State University.
Hugs comes with a simple graphics library. As a complete Haskell implementation that is portable and simple to install, Hugs is sometimes recommended for new Haskell users.
Hugs deviates from the Haskell 98 specification[2] in several minor ways.[3] For example, Hugs does not support mutually recursive modules.
The Hugs prompt (a Haskell REPL) accepts expressions for evaluation, but not module, type or function definitions. Hugs can load Haskell modules at start-up.[4]
References
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions about Hugs". http://cvs.haskell.org/Hugs/pages/users_guide/faq.html. Retrieved 2006-08-04.
- ^ Simon Peyton Jones (editor) (December 2002). "Haskell 98 Language and Libraries: The Revised Report". http://haskell.org/onlinereport/. Retrieved 2006-08-03.
- ^ "Haskell 98 non-compliance". The Hugs 98 User's Guide. http://cvs.haskell.org/Hugs/pages/users_guide/haskell98.html#BUGS-HASKELL98. Retrieved 2006-08-04.
- ^ "Loading and editing Haskell module files". The Hugs 98 User's Guide. http://cvs.haskell.org/Hugs/pages/users_guide/module-commands.html. Retrieved 2006-08-04.
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