GHC stands for Glasgow Haskell Compiler , which is the native code compiler for Haskell. It is open source and can be downloaded from https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ . It is also integrated into the Haskell Platform, available at https://www.haskell.org/downloads#platform . (We recommend you install the Haskell Platform because it contains the compiler, Cabal,1 and other tools you’ll use in this book.)
Introducing GHC
The main components of GHC are the interactive interpreter GHCi and the batch compiler. GHC ...