[m-dev.] for review: add events and reports to web page.

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On 04-Oct-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Index: information/events/icfp2000.html

I will comment only on the text; someone else should review the scripts.

> +team could consist of any size.  The short time frame of the contest
> +meant that programming languages that help programmers to build complex
> +systems quickly, should be more advantageous to use then more efficient
> +but less software engineering friendly languages (see the report on the

What do you mean by "software engineering friendly language"?

I think you want to say that flexibility-oriented languages are better suited
for a context like this than safety-oriented languages. Mercury is a
safety-oriented language.

"then" -> "than"

> +It should be remembered that Western Europe and Melbourne, Australia are

This applies to all Europe and all Australia, so say

It should be remembered that Europe and Australia are ...

> We recommend using the type system to prevent the unit vector
> +error if anyone wants to write a ray-tracer in Mercury in the future.

What do you mean by "unit vector" here? A vector whose magnitude is 1?

> +<H3>Using Mercury</H3>
> +
> +The distrubuted nature of the entry and the lack of problems encountered

"distributed"

> +due to the distribution of team members is a feather in the cap of the  
> +Mercury language.

I would not put this so strongly; several other languages share this property.

Zoltan.
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