Title: Hugs
Short: HUGS functional programming environment (v1.3)
ShortName: hugs.arc
Author: Mark P. Jones (mpj@cs.nott.ac.uk)
Date of Release: 18-aug-96
Status: Freeware
Archiver used: SparkFS

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Short Description:

Hugs 1.0 is Mark Jones' "Haskell Users' Gofer System". It provides a
functional programming environment much like that of Gofer but with a
much greater degree of compatibility with Haskell.  Almost all of the
features of Haskell 1.2 are implemented with the exception of the module
system (like Gofer, module headers and import declarations are parsed,
but are otherwise ignored).  For example, Hugs supports Haskell style
type classes, a full prelude, derived instances, defaults, overloaded
numeric literals and pattern matching, and bignum arithmetic.  It has
the advantage over Gofer of bignum arithmetic and is closer to the
Haskell 1.2 standard, but has Haskell's less expressive type class system.