CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search This article is about the Haskell interpreter. For the affectionate physical gesture, see Hug . For the confectionery, see Hershey's Hugs . Hugs 98 Developer(s) Mark P. Jones, others Stable release September 2006 / September 21, 2006 ( 2006-09-21 ) Development status Inactive [ 1 ] Operating system Cross-platform Type Compiler License BSD Website Hugs 98 homepage Free software portal Hugs ( Haskell User's Gofer System ), also Hugs 98 , is a bytecode interpreter for the functional programming language Haskell . Hugs is the successor to Gofer , and was originally derived from Gofer version 2.30b. [ 2 ] Hugs and Gofer were originally developed by Mark P. Jones, now a professor at Portland State University . Hugs comes with a simple graphics library....