Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is an open-source native code compiler for the functional programming language Haskell. It provides a cross-platform environment for writing and testing Haskell code, and supports numerous extensions, libraries, and optimizations that streamline the process of generating and executing code. GHC is the most commonly used Haskell compiler. The lead developers are Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow.

Categories

• Haskell

ghc

ghci configuration

• 2.9. The .ghci file

ghci configuration files can be in several places and are processed in the following order.

1. ./.ghci
2. ${appdata}/ghc/ghci.conf (where appdata depends on your system, but is usually something like C:/Documents and Settings/user/Application Data)
3. On Unix: $HOME/.ghc/ghci.conf
4. $HOME/.ghci

ghc-pkg

• 5.9. Packages — Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.11.0.20200827 User's Guide

History

GHC originally began in 1989 as a prototype written in LML (Lazy ML) by Kevin Hammond at the University of Glasgow.