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-Haskell is the standard lazy purely functional programming language.
-The current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998,
-with a revised version published in January 2003.
+The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and
+interactive environment for the functional language Haskell.  Highlights:
 
-The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising
-compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98 generating
-good code for a variety of platforms.  GHC is a state-of-the-art
-programming suite for Haskell and compiles Haskell to either native code
-or C.  It implements numerous experimental language extensions to
-Haskell, including concurrency, a foreign language interface, several
-type-system extensions, exceptions, and so on.  GHC comes with a
-generational garbage collector, a space and time profiler, comprehensive
-set of libraries and an interactive system for convenient, quick
-development.
+ * Supports the entire Haskell 2010 language plus a wide variety of
+   extensions.
+ * Has particularly good support for concurrency and parallelism, including
+   support for Software Transactional Memory (STM).
+ * Generates fast code, particularly for concurrent programs.
+ * Works on several platforms including FreeBSD, Windows, Mac, Linux, most
+   varieties of Unix, and several different processor architectures.
+ * Has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module optimisation.
+ * Compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM as a
+   back-end.  It can also generate C code as an intermediate target for porting
+   to new platforms.  The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode,
+   and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
+ * Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap
+   profiling.
+ * Comes with several libraries, and thousands more are available on Hackage.
 
 WWW: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/