pkgsrc/lang/ghc810/DESCR

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GHC: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising
compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98
(http://www.haskell.org). GHC 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, and a
comprehensive set of libraries.
This package provides the 8.10.x release series which have been
superseded by GHC 9.0.x (lang/ghc90). There is basically no reason why
one would want to use this anymore, as GHC 9 can also be bootstrapped
using GHC 8.8.