comp.compilers catalog of compilers, etc.

Peter SCHACHTE pets at cs.mu.oz.au
Tue Sep 2 17:41:26 AEST 1997


The entry for Mercury in the comp.compilers "Catalog of compilers,
interpreters, and other language tools" is looking a bit stale.  Has
someone mailed them (free-compilers at idiom.com) an announcment of 0.7?

Here's the current entry for Mercury:

language:	Mercury
package:	Mercury
version:	0.3
parts:		compiler(->C), library, run-time, documentation, examples
author:		Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.oz.au>
		Thomas Conway <conway at cs.mu.oz.au>
		Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.oz.au>
		and others
location:	
     Australia: ftp://ftp.cs.mu.oz.au/pub/mercury
     USA:	ftp://ftp.cs.sunysb.edu/pub/XSB/mercury
     Europe:	ftp://ftp.csd.uu.se/pub/Mercury
description:	a new, purely declarative logic programming language
		designed for the development of large applications
		by teams of programmers
reference:	see <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~zs/mercury.html>
features:	+ no non-logical side-effects (even I/O is purely declarative)
		+ strong polymorphic types
		+ strong modes
		+ determinism system
		+ module system
		+ supports higher-order programming
		+ very efficient
bugs:		<mercury-bugs at cs.mu.oz.au>
restriction:	GNU Public Licence
requires:	GNU C >= 2.6.3 and GNU Make.
ports:		IRIX 5, Solaris, Ultrix, Alpha/OSF, Linux, BSD
portability:	should port to any POSIX-like system without too much trouble
status:		undergoing active development
discussion:	comp.lang.misc/comp.lang.prolog
support:	<mercury at cs.mu.oz.au>
announcements:	Mailing list (contact <mercury at cs.mu.oz.au> to subscribe).
contact:	<mercury at cs.mu.oz.au>
updated:	1995/09


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