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Nearly a Haskell Compiler (NHC) is a small Haskell compiler/interpreter originally introduced in 1994 by Niklas Röjemo, it compiles to a bytecode that targets a runtime written in C and has libraries and tools that allow it to call and be called by C tools. NHC was renamed NHC98 when it was made compatible with the Haskell 98 standard and at the same time the version numbers were rebooted. There was also a now dead fork by Tom Shackell in the form of the York Haskell Compiler that actually was better in some respects.

NHC is primarily written in Haskell but it has a small, fairly system independent runtime that is written in C and this makes it easy to bootstrap the system on platforms that have a C compiler available.

Versions

NHC 1.3 - last OS/2 version
NHC98 v1.22 (2010) - There never was an OS/2 release of any of the NHC98 family, but the latest version appears to compile and work on OS/2, but is untested.

Publications

Niklas Röjemo: nhc - Nearly a Haskell Compiler - [1]
Niklas Röjemo: Garbage Collection, and Memory Efficiency, in Lazy Functional Languages (1995) [2]
Colin Runciman; Niklas Röjemo: Heap Profiling for Space Efficiency [3]

Links

NHC98 homepage

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-'''Nearly a Haskell Compiler''' or NHC is a small [[Haskell]] compiler/interpreter originally introduced in 1994 by Niklas Röjemo, it compiles to a bytecode that targets a runtime written in [[C]] and has libraries and tools that allow it to call and be called by C tools. NHC was renamed NHC98 when it was made compatible with the Haskell 98 standard and at the same time the version numbers were rebooted. There was also a now dead fork by Tom Shackell in the form of the [http://yhc06.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/yhc-is-dead.html York Haskell Compiler] that actually was better in some respects.
+'''Nearly a Haskell Compiler''' (NHC) is a small [[Haskell]] compiler/interpreter originally introduced in 1994 by Niklas Röjemo, it compiles to a bytecode that targets a runtime written in [[C]] and has libraries and tools that allow it to call and be called by C tools. NHC was renamed NHC98 when it was made compatible with the Haskell 98 standard and at the same time the version numbers were rebooted. There was also a now dead fork by Tom Shackell in the form of the [http://yhc06.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/yhc-is-dead.html York Haskell Compiler] that actually was better in some respects.
 NHC is primarily written in Haskell but it has a small, fairly system independent runtime that is written in C and this makes it easy to bootstrap the system on platforms that have a C compiler available.
 ==Versions==
-* Last known version: NHC98 v1.22 (2010)
+*NHC 1.3 - last OS/2 version
-: There never was an OS/2 release of any of the NHC98 family, but the latest version appears to compile and work on OS/2, but is untested.
+*NHC98 v1.22 (2010) - There never was an OS/2 release of any of the NHC98 family, but the latest version appears to compile and work on OS/2, but is untested.
-* Last known OS/2 version: NHC 1.3
-==Links & publications==
+==Publications==
+* Niklas Röjemo: ''nhc - Nearly a Haskell Compiler'' - [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&type=pdf&doi=10.1.1.38.5479]
+* Niklas Röjemo: ''Garbage Collection, and Memory Efficiency, in Lazy Functional Languages'' (1995) [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rojemo/thesis.html]
+* Colin Runciman; Niklas Röjemo: ''Heap Profiling for Space Efficiency'' [http://foswiki.cs.uu.nl/foswiki/pub/USCS/InterestingPapers/HeapProfiling.pdf]
+==Links==
 * [https://www.haskell.org/nhc98/ NHC98 homepage]
-* Niklas Röjemo: [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?rep=rep1&type=pdf&doi=10.1.1.38.5479 nhc - Nearly a Haskell Compiler] - In [[PDF]] format
-* Niklas Röjemo: [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rojemo/thesis.html Garbage Collection, and Memory Efficiency, in Lazy Functional Languages] (1995)
-* Colin Runciman and Niklas Röjemo: [http://foswiki.cs.uu.nl/foswiki/pub/USCS/InterestingPapers/HeapProfiling.pdf Heap Profiling for Space Efficiency]
-==Author==
-* Niklas Röjemo
-[[Category:Haskell]][[Category:Functional programming]][[Category:Open Source Software]]
+[[Category:Haskell]][[Category:Open Source Software]][[Category:Software written in C]]
-[[Category:Software written in C]]
 [[Category:Software written in Haskell]]