I used Mark Jones's HUGS (or its predecessor Gofer) in my elective functional programming course from 1993 through 2010. It worked quite nicely in that context. At some point after 2010, I switched to using GHC to make sure I did not depend on unmaintained software and to be compatible with Haskell 2010 and Simon Thompson's textbook.

In recent years, I used Haskell extensively in a required course on programming language organization. Likely, HUGS would have made supporting the large number of students in that course a bit easier.

Conrad

H. Conrad Cunningham
Professor Emeritus & Chair Emeritus
The University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)

Hm, what does "unmaintained" mean? Sure, long time (more than 10 years)
no updates. Nevertheless, there doesn't seem to be a large number of
requests for changes or corrections that are left without response. You
may say, there are no users, hence no problems. You may also say that
the users are simply quietly satisfied.

And there are a few users, as witnessed by Doug's

  https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/hugs-users/2018-July/000902.html

and Anthony's

  https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/hugs-users/2018-July/000900.html

a bit further along in the same thread.

When I started using Haskell in 2003, inspired by my use of Miranda in a
course some 10 years before that, haskell.org had a "Implementation"
button with Hugs, nhc, and GHC (of course) and perhaps more, Helium,
jhc, uhc, lhc come to mind, I am not sure. Even on top of just wishing
the Hugs links repaired, that list would also be high on my wish list.

To be sure, I would never recommend any unmaintained program, such that
Hugs very clearly labels itself on https://www.haskell.org/hugs (the
wording is "no longer in development"), for any "serious" use.
Nevertheless, it seems a waste not to maintain these references to
valuable material, whether for educational, historical or just
entertainment reasons. One valuable development, not particularly recent
but worth mentioning, is Andy Gill's hpc, Haskell Program Coverage, that
took place initially, as I understand, using nhc with Malcolm Wallace
guidance.