Hugs98, or failing that, the original Hugs, will almost certainly
be easier to compile for your RHEL5 system, but do note that
it's not a compiler in the sense that it makes standalone binaries.
Given your constraints, it's probably the best choice.
Tommy
On Apr 26, 2013, at 22:21 , Christopher Howard
Hi. I've got this work situation where I've got to do all my work on /ancient/ RHEL5 systems, with funky software configurations, and no root privileges. I wanted to install GHC in my local account, but the gnu libc version is so old (2.5!) that I can't even get the binary packages to install.
I've had success installing some other simple functional languages (like CLISP) on these same systems, so I was wondering if there was perhaps another language very similar to Haskell (but presumably simpler) with a super portable compiler easily built from source, which I could try.
I'll admit -- I haven't tried the HUGS compiler for Haskell. The quick description didn't make it sound much more portable than GHC, but I guess I could try it if I heard some good reasons to think it would be more portable.
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