Editing Glasgow Haskell Compiler (section)

==History==
GHC originally begun in 1989 as a prototype, written in [[Lazy ML]] (LML) by Kevin Hammond at the [[University of Glasgow]]. Later that year, the prototype was completely rewritten in Haskell, except for its [[parser]], by Cordelia Hall, Will Partain, and Simon Peyton Jones. Its first beta release was on 1 April 1991. Later releases added a [[Strictness analysis|strictness analyzer]] and language extensions such as [[Monads in functional programming|monadic I/O]], mutable arrays, unboxed data types, concurrent and parallel programming models (such as [[software transactional memory]] and [[data parallelism]]) and a [[Profiling (computer programming)|profiler]].<ref name="history">
{{cite conference
 | last1=Hudak |first1=P. |last2=Hughes |first2=J. |last3=Peyton Jones |first3=S. |author3-link=Simon Peyton Jones |last4=Wadler |first4=P.
 | date=June 2007
 | title=A History of Haskell: Being Lazy With Class
 | book-title=Procedures of the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference (HOPL-III)
 | url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/history.pdf
 | access-date=1 September 2016
}}
</ref>

Peyton Jones, and Marlow, later moved to [[Microsoft Research]] in [[Cambridge]], where they continued to be primarily responsible for developing GHC. GHC also contains code from more than three hundred other contributors.<ref name="contribs">
{{cite web
 | title = The GHC Team
 | url = https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/team-ghc
 | website = Haskell.org
 | access-date = 1 September 2016
}}</ref>
From 2009 to about 2014, third-party contributions to GHC were funded by the Industrial Haskell Group.<ref>
{{cite web
 | title = Industrial Haskell Group
 | url = http://industry.haskell.org
 | website = Haskell.org
 | date = 2014
 | access-date = 1 September 2016
}}
</ref>

===GHC names===
Since early releases the official website<ref>{{cite web |title=GHC The Glasgow Haskell Compiler |url=https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ |website=Haskell.org |access-date=14 January 2022}}</ref> has referred to GHC as ''The Glasgow Haskell Compiler'', whereas in the executable version command it is identified as ''The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Repository: configure.ac |url=https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/blob/c2a6c3eb380891eb44d30529f0b9f8f6debf31c9/configure.ac |website=gitlab.haskell.org |date=12 January 2022 |access-date=14 January 2022}}</ref> This has been reflected in the documentation.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System User's Guide, Version 7.6.3 |url=https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.6.3/docs/html/users_guide/ |website=downloads.haskell.org |access-date=14 January 2022}}</ref> Initially, it had the internal name of ''The Glamorous Glasgow Haskell Compiler''.<ref>{{cite web |title=ghc-0.29-src.tar.gz |url=https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/0.29/ghc-0.29-src.tar.gz |format=[[tar (computing)|tar]] [[gzip]] |website=downloads.haskell.org |at=File: ghc-0.29/ghc/PATCHLEVEL |access-date=14 January 2022}}</ref>