Haskell: Batteries Included

The Platform Specification is a cabal file stating required tools and packages. The content of the platform is summarised below:

Compiler and Tools

• GHC 6.10.4 - The state-of-the-art optimzing compiler for Haskell.
• GHCi 6.10.4 - A bytecode interpreter and interactive environment for Haskell
• The GHCi debugger - An interactive, imperative-style debugger for Haskell
• The GHC parallel runtime - a multicore language runtime, featuring lightweight threads, thread sparks, affinity control, and a parallel garbage collector
• The Happy parser generator - Happy 1.18.4, a yacc-like parser generator for Haskell
• The Alex lexer generator - Alex 2.3.1, a lex-like lexer generator for Haskell
• The Haddock Documentation tool - generator Haddock 2.4.2
• The Cabal package distribution tool - cabal-install 0.6.2, download and install new Haskell packages from Hackage
• The hsc2hs foreign language binding tool - a preprocessor for binding Haskell to C

Packages and Documentation

• base, array, bytestring, Cabal, containers, directory, editline, filepath, ghc-prim, haskell98, hpc, integer, old-locale, old-time, packedstring, pretty, process, random, syb, template-haskell, unix, Win32, cgi, fgl, GLUT, haskell-src, html, HUnit, mtl, network, OpenGL, parallel, parsec, QuickCheck, regex-base, regex-compat, regex-posix, stm, time, xhtml, zlib, HTTP

Functionality

• The Haskell Prelude

• Control Structures
  • applicatives, arrows, functors, monoids
  • synchronous and asynchronous (extensible) exceptions
  • monads: the mtl monad suite
  • foldables, traversables
• Concurrency and Parallelism
  • lightweight threads
  • thread sparks / futures
  • software transactional memory
  • MVars: thread synchronization variables
  • channels, semaphors, sample vars
• Data Structures
  • primitive and standard data types
  • strings
  • sequence types
  • pure, impure arrays, boxed/unboxed, foreign, storable, ST, diff arrays
  • strict and lazy bytestrings
  • regular, and inductive graphs
  • finite maps
  • patricia tries
  • sets
  • fingertrees
  • mutable references
  • mutable hashtables
  • dynamic types
  • weak and stable references
• Debugging and Testing
  • tracing and debugging
  • HUnit uni testing
  • QuickCheck test generation
  • HPC code coverage framework
  • Heap profiling
  • Retainer profiling
• Distribution
  • The Cabal distribution framework
• Generics
  • Template Haskell
  • Scrap-Your-Boilerplate generics
• Graphics
  • GLUT
  • OpenGL
• Languages
  • The C FFI specification
  • C errno handling
  • C types
  • Haskell98 compatibility layer
  • Haskell language parsing and pretty printing
• Network
  • Sockets, Handles
  • HTTP protocol client
  • CGI Common Gateway Interface support.
  • URI construction
• Math
  • arbitrary precision integers and ratios
  • fixed precision numbers
  • complex numbers
  • random number generators
• Text
  • Unicode characters
  • readp parsing combinators
  • parsec parsing combinators
  • Hughes/SPJ pretty printing combinators
  • posix regular expressions
• System
  • file and handle abstractions
  • System IO
  • garbage collector services
  • portable process and pipe support
  • directory handling
  • OS portable filepath manipulation
  • editline console handling
  • environment handling
  • cpu time, system info, posix, timeouts
  • Unix Posix support or Win32 support
  • portable dates and calender times
  • read/show data serialisation
  • zlib compression
  • locale support
• Web
  • simple html and xhtml generation